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Sun Complete Care program details*

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HP Sun Complete Care – more good reasons to switch from Sun to HP

Free migration and TCO assessments

HP Expert Migration Specialists will lead an interactive session customized to help you identify and prioritize your company's current modernization needs and to lower the costs and risks associated with migration and modernization initiatives through better management.

Free Oracle® applications migration assessment

HP 1:1 Workshops for Oracle help you choose the appropriate strategy to upgrade your Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft Enterprise and Oracle Siebel CRM applications.

Free SAP customer infrastructure assessment service

Get a free SAP Customer Infrastructure Assessment Service which guides you through the upgrade process, identifies a suitable and adaptive infrastructure layout based on your requirements, and helps you develop a business case to justify an upgrade investment.

Free SAP TCO Analysis service

Get a free SAP TCO Analysis to see how you can identify business objectives that support upgrading to SAP ERP 6.0. When you consider the entire picture—from reduced hardware and software costs and maintenance to smaller data center footprints, energy savings, and new functionality in SAP applications—you may be able to retire outdated technology and its maintenance resulting in significant TCO savings. This analysis can also help you:
  • Plan an enterprise-wide upgrade, including testing and quality assurance.
  • Identify which systems need consolidation, migration or replacement.
  • Choose improvements for system-wide performance.
  • Minimize system downtime during the upgrade.
  • Verify custom SAP R/3 programs and add-ons work with SAP ERP 6.0.
  • Better understand what Unicode conversion will mean for your SAP environment.
HP Services provides comprehensive SAP migration and 6.0 ERP upgrade services and a proven process that has been used to successfully transition thousands of SAP customers from aging servers and operating systems to high-performance platforms.

Sun server trade-in credits and rebates**

Trade-in credits
Get up to a 15 percent trade-in credit or HP “green” disposal for Sun Sparc servers when being replaced with Integrity servers or ProLiant DL785 servers. Customer will receive a rebate for the trade-in value after Sun servers are received at the HP Return Center.
Trade-in rebates
For Sun SPARC servers that are replaced with other ProLiant servers, HP offers:
  • Free shipping/handling/recycling (quantity and weight limits may apply and these services must be arranged through HP).
  • Any resale value for the trade-in servers (subject to market conditions).
  • Cash back equal to 10 percent of purchase price on select options upgrades such as memory kits (16GB and 64GB), 300 GB SAS hard drives, HP UPS systems and HP PDUs.
  • Additional cash back on select c-Class options such as enclosures and interconnects.

Solaris to HP-UX 11i software trade-in

Trade up from running Solaris on Sun servers to HP-UX 11i v3 on HP Integrity servers and you can get deep discounts on HP-UX. Get 85 percent off the usual price of HP-UX 11i v3 BOE or 50 percent off HP-UX 11i v3 VSE-OE. The total quantity of discounted licenses equals the lesser of the number of processor cores either in the trade-in Sun server or in the new HP Integrity server and must be of an equivalent size to the Solaris trade-in.

Lease payments deferral

HP offers a number of financial services incentives that make it easy and economical for you to move up to HP technologies in ways that help meet your business needs. Get a 90-day deferral*** of lease payments on qualified purchases. (Country availability and some restrictions may apply.)

Training and support discounts

Fifteen to 30 percent off education
Qualifying customers can get special discounts on HP TS educational services including 30 percent off on publicly scheduled educational services courses (“scheduled seats”) and a 15 percent discount on dedicated classes (“on-sites”). Training is available globally on many HP and related technologies, such as HP-UX, BladeSystems and storage.
Four- and five-year HP Care Pack services 15 percent off
These HP Services assure maximum availability and business continuity with the porting of applications from Sun to HP technology. In addition, SUN SAP customers can be assured of increased levels of service and support via SAP specific enhancements to the HP Mission Critical portfolio of services. Purchase a 4 or 5 year Support Plus 24, Proactive 24, or Critical Service Care Pack for an Integrity server qualifies the customer for a 15 percent additional discount on Care Pack options for hardware, software or proactive support.

Free à la carte Factory Express service

Choose a free ala carte Factory Express service offering from the standard menu upon the purchase of a Level 4 or Level 5 Factory Express solution. HP Factory Express provides predictable, trusted and tested IT solutions tailored to each customer's specific business need.
This service allows you to customize hardware to your exact specifications in the factory–helping Sun customers cut costs, speed deployment and assist in a smooth, quick migration and deployment to HP technology solutions.

Partner offers

Microsoft SQL Server per server license promotion
HP will sell Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise Edition under a license priced to appeal to small groups of users. The new license includes all the functionality of SQL Server Enterprise Edition, but for a smaller community. The new “Server + CAL (Client Access License)” license gives new customers a much lower entry level price for SQL Server used for the business intelligence and data analysis applications frequently implemented on Integrity systems.

In addition, HP offers a limited time, introductory credit of up to 100% of the list price for Microsoft SQL Server lowering the system list price (server + Windows Server + SQL Server) by as much as 15%, compared to buying an HP Integrity system and SQL Server separately. This promotion extends the offer currently available for SQL purchased with Integrity Superdome, rx8640 or rx7640 to the Integrity BL870c and rx6600 servers.

50% off Novell Linux Fundamentals on-demand training

Novell and HP are pleased to provide the on-demand SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Fundamentals course to you at a 50% discount.

20% off Red Hat Global Learning Services training

Qualifying customers can get this special discount on Red Hat publicly scheduled educational services courses for the newest curriculum of Red Hat Global Learning Services.

Free User Group membership

Dues-free membership to Connect/HPUG entitles you to benefits such as discounts on HP events and in-person training at conferences, not to mention invitations to special webinars and the opportunity to influence the development of HP products. As member of Connect/HPUG, you also have the opportunity to get advice from and share strategies with a select group of IT professionals.
* Not available in all countries. These offers are only available as part of this Sun migration program and may not be combined with other offers or discounts. Customers must qualify for the incentives. Contact your HP sales representative for additional information.
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All cash back amounts and resale values are paid approximately 45 days after completion of new ProLiant purchases and delivery of the trade-in equipment.
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Customers who obtain this deferral offer will defer payments for 90 days from the lease start date on lease transactions followed by 36 monthly payments and a fair market value purchase option at the end of the lease term. Deferral option applies to HP solutions. This offer cannot be combined with any other promotions from HP Financial Services. Other restrictions may apply.

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