Oracle Lauds Partners

The Titan awards were co-presented by channel chief Rauline Ochs and various and sundry VPs along with Jeff Henley. Introducing Henley, Ochs stumbled on his title which is, by the way, Chairman. That elicited laughter among partners and insiders accustomed to scouring every pronouncement for possible management changes. "I have no news for you, I promise," Ochs joked to the crowd.

In 2004, Henley, the long time CFO, took on the Chairman role from then-triple threat Larry Ellison (CEO, Chairman, President)

But enough, on with the awards: There were 120 nominees this year up nearly 80 percent over last year, according to Ochs. The Application Server Solution of the year honoree was SunGard SCT.

Collaboration and Integration Solution of the year went to Enterprise Business Solutions.

Other news: Fair Isaac won the database solution of the year; MHC Software won Industry ISV solution of the year. Mi Services Group won solution of the year for Industry Systems Integrator.

Other winners: EnvironMax for public sector solution; Egenera for SMB solution: Accenture for applications; IBM Business Consulting Services for global systems integrator; Fidelity Information Services for ISV partner of the year.

For the JD Edwards category, CSS won partner of the year and for the PeopleSoft category CedarCrestone and Deloitte Consulting shared top honors.