In an earnings call last week, Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) President Charles Phillips offered to provide CTOs to its large, devoted customers. More specifically, Oracle is offering up "client architects" who can give technical advice on keeping an enterprise's architecture aligned with Oracle's own strategies, Bob Evans writes in a post at InformationWeek.

"[N]ow, almost any decision they make in the data center could involve Oracle, so we have deployed a cadre of technical advisors that we call 'client architects' that essentially act as dedicated CTOs for our large customers who want to stay tightly aligned with Oracle strategy," Phillips said.

As Evans points out, this "CTO-in-a-box" service gives Oracle more opportunity to cross sell.

For more:
- see Bob Evans' post at InformationWeek

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