Dell is making plans to sell Oracle’s popular JD Edwards line of business applications.“We are already one of Oracle’s top resellers, (mostly) in middleware and database technology,” T.J. Lamphier, senior manager of Dell’s enterprise product group, said Thursday. “It makes sense to move up the value chain.”Attending Oracle’s JD Edwards partner meeting at Oracle headquarters in Redwood Shores, Calif., Lamphier explained that JD Edwards products, including World and EnterpriseOne suites, represent a move up the stack of technology from Oracle that Dell is already offering. “(Dell Board Chairman) Michael Dell has talked about the need for standardization in the marketplace and that (JD Edwards reselling) fits in with our decision to partner with Oracle,” Lamphier said.Final details of the arrangement should be finished by summer’s end, he said.Thursday’s partner meeting stressed co-operation between rivals Oracle and IBM, which runs a good deal of JD Edwards applications on its iSeries servers. Lamphier said he was impressed.“I would like to be in IBM’s position in two years as far a being one of Oracle’s (chief JD Edwards) partners,” he said. Technology Industry