Co-opetition at it's Best - IBM is Now Diamond Partner of Oracle (OPN)

People are often drawn to the fierce battle between the technology giants such as Oracle and SAP for business software (ERP) and IBM, HP and Oracle (Sun) for high end servers. However, there the reality is IBM Global Business Services (GBS) is the largest Oracle System Integrator (SI). Let me quote a Tweet here:
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abhinavagarwal Abhinav 

co-opetition at its best :-) RT @shyamvaran: #IBM is now an #Oracle #Diamond partner! #bigblue #oow11 #opn

As pointed out, the fact that IBM -GBS is now a Diamond Partner (highest level) and is one of the 4 top "Elites" proves that the top technology players work very closely with each other. 

shyamvaran Shyam Varan Nath

#IBM and #Oracle – They work a lot closer together than you think… Recent#Diamond Partner status of IBM is proof! goo.gl/TmaKM #OPN

Aug 30, 9:28 PM via web

What does Diamond Partner level mean? Check out this page:

http://solutions.oracle.com/partners/ibm