This week, Dell and Oracle announced a partnership unique to both companies.Dell would offer Oracle software on its machines and would resell Oracle services.The offerings will include Oracle Linux, Oracle VM, Oracle Enterprise Manager, as well as Oracle’s database, middleware and applications.

The level of collaboration in engineering and customer support will make Dell and Oracle’s partnership unique, Haas said in an interview later on Tuesday.

The companies will work together closely to optimize Oracle’s software for Dell server platforms, Haas said. The work will include efforts around Oracle 12c, the next version of the company’s database, which has been years in the making and will be built to provide cloud-based services.

Under the partnership, Dell will be the primary provider of support for systems it sells that run Oracle software, Haas said.

“If it’s a Dell customer … we can not just sell the solution but we can also support the whole environment, and we’ll take the first call and we’ll also be able to resell support and renew the support,” Haas said.