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PYTHIAN NEWS

Pythian and Scalar Decisions today announced a formal partnership providing Oracle customers an unparalleled one-stop shop solution provider in Canada. Combined, we can help Oracle customers develop, fulfill, implement, and manage their whole Oracle solution stack.

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• Related news.
• More about Scalar Decisions

PYTHIAN NEWS

Pythian makes deployment of new Oracle Database Appliance even easier with fixed-price offering. Pythian’s EasyMigrate offering gives customers firm pricing and a predictable, streamlined migration plan to get Oracle Database Appliance up and running in the shortest possible timeframe.

Today was a busy day in the news for Pythian, as Oracle released Oracle Database Appliance. Pythian is now offering fixed-price services to migrate to ODA and support it on an ongoing basis. Small and midsized business can leverage Pythian’s Oracle expertise and take full advantage of the cost and performance advantages of ODA.

• Read the news
• Get an estimate on the cost to migrate to ODA
• Contact us to have your questions answered or to get started with ODA

Here’s the buzz so far:

• Oracle Database Appliance – What does it mean for you and your business?
• Oracle takes aim at hardward competitors with channel ready database appliance
• Oracle database seen as entry to Exadata
• Database appliance for the masses
• Comparing Oracle Database Appliance and Exadata
• Unofficial Oracle Database Appliance FAQ

Will you be at Oracle OpenWorld? Pythian is presenting tips, best practices, real-world experiences and lessons learned at over 8 sessions, including co-presentations with clients Western Union and WWT. If you want to connect with any of our technical, sales or executives team attending send us an email.

PYTHIAN NEWS UPDATE

For the second year in a row, Pythian is proud to be named to the prestigious Profit 200 Ranking of Canada’s Fastest Growing Companies.

Ranking Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies by five-year revenue growth, the PROFIT 200 profiles the country’s most successful growth companies. Published in the Summer issue of PROFIT and online at PROFITguide.com, the PROFIT 200 is Canada’s largest annual celebration of entrepreneurial achievement.

Pythian is also happy to announce the official opening of our Toronto, Canada office and the expansion of our local GTA team to include Regional Sales Director, Colin Thompson (previously with Oracle).

Liveblogging announcements from Sunday’s Oracle OpenWorld Keynote.

It’s 5:36 PM now – stay tuned…

@fuadar: Exadata smoothie and java juice in moscone south #oow10

5:44pm: Larry couldn’t get his boat under the Golden Bridge — next yer he needs a smaller boat or rebuild the bridge? :)

5:50pm: Oracle Partners Specialization awards… oh well, why is Pythian not on stage with our 4 Specializations? :(
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Oracle SaaS for ISVs Software Licensing and Pythian Services Provide Flexible, Convenient, Scalable, Low-risk Solution to Plan, Deploy, Manage Oracle Database Infrastructures

PYTHIAN NEWS UPDATE
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The Pythian Group Inc., the leading provider of remote database infrastructure services, today announced that it is teaming with Oracle® to provide Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) with a convenient and flexible all-in-one solution for licensing Oracle products and Pythian services required to correctly plan, deploy and manage the ISV’s database infrastructure.
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I can’t stand this anymore so here it goes…

We have just hired one more DBA in our Sydney office (welcome Andre!) and we need a new mobile phone. We were trying to contact Vodafone representatives multiple times today starting early morning but they keep saying that their system is down and they cannot subscribe us to anything or validate our previous requests. They also confirmed that they lost many customers today — well, most of today’s new customers for sure and pissed of quite a few existing clients.

Let’s say that average new customer would spend about $50 per month for the next 2 years so we get to $1,200. How many new customers does an average store subscribe every day? If there are 3 sales persons on average and they do 10 new customers per day then we have 30 new clients. How many Vodafone stores? I probably can find the number but I just assume there are 300 stores. Today, those stores lost new subscribers worth of more than $10 million of revenue over the next 2 years. This is only lost revenue for new clients. Granted, some people are loyal enough (like me) and can swallow and wait until tomorrow but most will just walk into a Telstra/Optus/Virgin Mobile store nearby. I don’t even account for independent stores and internet/phone sales.

Now, if you are from Vodafone Australia and know where the problem is… and if the issue is somewhat related to the database, please, please get the IT manager to call me. Will you?! Believe me it’s cheaper than $10 million and I really want this phone contract done fast as well as expect reliable customer services from our mobile phone provider. I’ll make the discounted offer! ;-)