IBM Ousts HP, Oracle With Customer Wins

IBM is claiming a record number of customer wins at the expense of rivals HP and Oracle. The company reported that, in the third quarter, its Migration Factory program moved 286 customers from competing platforms to IBM’s Power Systems, according to this report from Datamation.

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“A quarterly record 286 customers migrated to IBM (NYSE: IBM) Power Systems from competitors in the third quarter, including 172 from Oracle/Sun and 95 from HP, the company said. IBM also said it set a record for the first three quarters of 2010 with almost 800 migrations, over 200 more than all of 2009.

“All told, IBM said it's won over more than 1,500 competitive "displacements" to IBM Power from Oracle/Sun and more than 1,000 from HP (NYSE: HPQ) since it began the Migration Factory program in 2006.

The news comes at a time when longtime alliance between HP and Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) has taken hits on several fronts, dating back to Oracle's decision last year to get into the systems business with the acquisition of HP rival Sun Microsystems.

“More recently, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison pointedly criticized HP for firing its CEO Mark Hurd over charges that included improper expense accounting and then hired Hurd as a co-President of Oracle.

“Relations between the two firms have been further strained as an offshoot of Oracle's high profile trade secrets case with SAP (NYSE: SAP) after Oracle subpoenaed former SAP co-CEO Leo Apotheker to be a witness. Apotheker was hired by HP to replace Hurd as CEO but HP has so far refused to make him available to testify, noting he already gave a lengthy video deposition back in 2008.”

For more, read "IBM Claims Big Customer Wins at Oracle, HP's Expense" at Datamation.

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