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CDW Corporation (NASDAQ:CDWC), a leading provider of technology products
and services to business, government and education, today announced that
it will deliver Oracle products through their newly streamlined SMB
Technology order process, complete with pre- and post-sales assistance.
The Oracle SMB Technology Order process is tailored to meet the needs of
small- and medium-sized business customers. CDW’s
Oracle Presales Specialists, supported by dedicated Oracle employees
onsite, will help customers choose the best Oracle solution and keep
track of all software assets.
“Small- and medium-size businesses wrestle
continually to improve their competitive footing against larger
companies in their industries, and extracting good, timely information
from their data is one way to do so,” said Ken
Grimsley, CDW vice president of strategic sales. “CDW
is now able to deliver the enterprise power of Oracle, quickly and
effectively, to smaller customers on platforms from leading hardware
vendors such as HP, Lenovo and IBM.”
“Oracle is listening closely to what smaller
businesses need, and we are making moves to broaden their access to our
technology products,” said Judson Althoff,
vice president, Global Platform & Distribution Sales at Oracle. “CDW’s
active embrace of this program, with their national base of SMB
customers, will help us keep our commitment to delivering new and better
solutions for growing businesses.”
Oracle SMB Technology products provide small- and mid-size organizations
with scalable, secure and highly available applications that manage and
capture the value of their data with the power of enterprise-strength
systems at a fraction of the cost. Oracle SMB Technology products
currently include Oracle® Database 10g
Standard Edition and Standard Edition One, Oracle Application Server
Standard Edition and Standard Edition One, and Oracle Business
Intelligence Standard Edition and Standard Edition One. CDW engineers
and advanced technology specialists in areas such as software licensing,
servers, networking, security and storage can help customize solutions
that include Oracle SMB Technology products to meet customers' complex
technology needs.
CDW is a Certified Advantage Partner (CAP) in the Oracle PartnerNetwork
with expertise in Oracle’s Technology
Products, including:
All versions of Oracle Database
Oracle Fusion Middleware
Oracle Collaboration Suite and tools and options.
CDW has full Oracle Database solution design, upgrade and scalability
options available through all account managers in both public and
private Sectors, regardless of customer size or project. All Oracle
opportunities are assisted by on-site pre-sales engineers, helping to
ensure complete database solution design, solution accuracy, license
compliance and support initiatives to provide an all-around, one-stop
shop for Oracle Database needs through CDW.
About CDW
CDW®, ranked No. 342 on the FORTUNE 500, is a
leading provider of technology solutions for business, government and
education. CDW is a principal source of technology products and services
including top name brands such as APC, Acer, Adobe, Apple, Cisco,
Fujitsu, HP, IBM, Lenovo, Microsoft, Panasonic, Quantum, Samsung, Sony,
Symantec and ViewSonic. CDW's direct model offers customers one-on-one
relationships with knowledgeable account managers and access to more
than 760 on-staff engineers and advanced technology specialists who
customize solutions for customers’ complex
technology needs. CDW also provides same-day product shipping and
post-sales technical support.
CDW was founded in 1984 and employs approximately 5,480 coworkers. In
2006, the company generated sales of $6.8 billion. For more information,
visit CDW.com.
Trademarks
Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its
affiliates.
CDW Corporation will file with the Securities and Exchange Commission
(the “SEC”), and
furnish to its shareholders, a proxy statement soliciting proxies for
the meeting of its shareholders to be called with respect to the
proposed merger between CDW and Madison Dearborn Partners, LLC. CDW
SHAREHOLDERS ARE ADVISED TO READ THE PROXY STATEMENT WHEN IT IS
FINALIZED AND DISTRIBUTED TO THEM BECAUSE IT WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT
INFORMATION. CDW shareholders and other interested parties will be able
to obtain, without charge, a copy of the proxy statement (when
available) and other relevant documents filed with the SEC from the SEC’s
website at http://www.sec.gov. CDW
shareholders and other interested parties will also be able to obtain,
without charge, a copy of the proxy statement (when available) and other
relevant documents by directing a request by mail or telephone to CDW
Corporation, 200 N. Milwaukee Ave., Vernon Hills, Illinois 60061,
Attention: Corporate Secretary, telephone: (847) 465-6000, or from CDW’s
website, http://www.cdw.com.
CDW and certain of its directors, executive officers and other members
of management and employees may, under SEC rules, be deemed to be “participants”
in the solicitation of proxies from shareholders of CDW with respect to
the proposed merger. Information regarding the persons who may be
considered “participants”
in the solicitation of proxies will be set forth in CDW’s
proxy statement relating to the proposed merger when it is filed with
the SEC. Information regarding certain of these persons and their
beneficial ownership of CDW common stock as of March 31, 2007 is also
set forth in CDW’s proxy statement for its
2007 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, which was filed with the SEC on
April 16, 2007.
Statements about the expected timing, completion and effects of the
proposed merger between CDW and Madison Dearborn Partners, LLC, and all
other statements in this filing other than historical facts, constitute
forward-looking statements within the meaning of the safe harbor
provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these
forward-looking statements, each of which is qualified in its entirety
by reference to the following cautionary statements. Forward-looking
statements speak only as of the date hereof and are based on current
expectations and involve a number of assumptions, risks and
uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from
those projected in the forward-looking statements. CDW may not be able
to complete the proposed merger because of a number of factors,
including, among other things, the failure to obtain shareholder
approval, the failure of financing or the failure to satisfy other
closing conditions. Other risks and uncertainties that may affect
forward-looking statements are described in the reports filed by CDW
with the SEC under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended,
including without limitation CDW’s Annual
Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006.