Oracle exastack program to help ISVs with apps development

Oracle will make it easier and cheaper for independent software makers to build, test and deliver applications for its customers.

The Oracle exastack programme helps software makers run their solutions on Oracle exadata database machines and Oracle exalogic elastic clouds that dovetail with each other.

Oracle said the platforms provided partners with a high-performance, low-cost environment for database and application workloads in the cloud and on customers' premises.

Oracle exastack rates applications as Oracle exastack-ready or exastack-optimised; it gives partners resources to optimise their applications to run faster and more reliably.

Oracle said the partners would benefit by giving their customers certainty that their applications will run on and support Oracle exadata and exalogic platforms such as Solaris, Linux, database and WebLogic server. 

“In order to effectively differentiate their software applications in the marketplace, [software makers] need to rapidly deliver new capabilities and performance improvements,” said Judson Althoff, Oracle vice president of channel and alliances.

“With Oracle exastack, [software makers] have the ability to optimise and deploy their applications with a complete, integrated and cloud-ready infrastructure that will help them accelerate innovation, unlock new features and functionality, and deliver superior value to customers.”

Oracle exastack-ready gives qualified partners marketing opportunities such as permission to include official branding with their promotion materials when their applications support the latest major release of an Oracle product. 

The company said exastack-ready is available to OPN members at the gold level or above, who can . use their applications to progress through the platinum or diamond levels towards achieving Oracle exastack-optimised status. 

They have access to Oracle technical resources and dedicated exastack environments where they can test and tune their applications on appropriate platforms. Oracle partners are eligible to take part in the ready programme, experience of which will help them to attain exastack optimised status down the track.  

Oracle said that guidelines for its optimised and labs programmes will be available later this year.