Trade In, Trade Up Promotion: SPARC Consolidation Now Through May 31st
- by swalker
Dear  Partner, 
    Installed Base Business (IBB) technology  refresh is one of the most important activities for Oracle, for you and for your  customers. It allows your existing customers to benefit from the most  up-to-date, best-of-breed Oracle products.  
  
  And it’s an exciting time to perform  a technology refresh: a new SPARC  promotion is available now, closing 31st May 2012. Customers trading in  older SPARC systems and upgrading to a new SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 or SPARC  Enterprise M8000/M9000 can get $4,000 per CPU. Discount is pre-approved and  upfront (maximum discounts apply).
  The major highlights are as follows:   
  Targeted  Systems: Upgrade to SPARC M8000, M9000,  SuperCluster Qualified  installed base upgrade from:  All older-generations of SPARC systemsPromotional  offer:  
   
    Trade-in  Value: $4K per CPU 
    Pre-approved  maximum discount (including trade-in) not to exceed 60% on M8/9000 systems and  25% on SuperCluster 
    No-cost  dock-to-dock shipping, and environmentally safe disposal of the returned  hardware through Oracle best-of-class recycling processes. 
   
  Recommendations: 
  We recommend you to take the  following actions:  
   
    As  usual, please register your opportunities in OMM  
    When  you do so, please make sure you  place the following Campaign Names in the “Marketing  Initiative” field of OMM: Campaign  Name  : EMEA_Tech Refresh-IBB  Campaign_12H1_Follow Up_O  
   
  For all the  details:   Please view rules, and FAQs. For  more information, please visit the Promo Partner Site here. 
    For more information on IBB and the  Oracle Upgrade Advantage Program (UAP):http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/upgrade-advantage-program/index.html http://www.oracle.com/partners/secure/sales/oracle-ibb-program-for-partners-184291.html  
  Contacts: 
  For questions, please contact your  favorite Oracle Partner Account Manager.