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2 <Insert Picture Here> E-Business Suite Technology Stack Certification Roadmap Steven Chan Senior Director, Applications Technology Integration

3 Topics E-Business Suite Techstack Support Policy Updates Lifetime Support Stages EBS Support Stages Technology Products Support Stages E-Business Suite Certifications & Roadmap Desktop Clients Database Tier Application Server Tier External Integrations Security-Related Other Cool Stuff Last updated: Apr 19, 2010

4 Release 11i Technology Stack 3-Tier Logical Architecture Client Application Database HTTP / S Web Listener ias JServ JSP BC4J UIX Reports JDBC/SQL Net 10gR2 or 11g Global Single Data Model RAC & ASM Forms

5 Release 12 Technology Stack 3-Tier Logical Architecture Client Application Database HTTP / S Web Listener 10g OC4J JSP BC4J UIX BI Publisher JDBC/SQL Net 10gR2 or 11g Global Single Data Model RAC & ASM Forms

6 E-Business Suite Embedded Technology Components Database in Rapid Install Database supported for Maintenance Pack Forms & Reports 10g OC4J 10g JDK 6.0 XML / BI Publisher Oracle Configuration Manager

7 E-Business Suite Certified Desktop Tier Components Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8 Mozilla Firefox 3.0, 3.5 Apple Safari 3 Microsoft Office 2007 Sun Java Runtime Engine: JRE 1.5.0_13 and higher JRE 1.6.0_03 and higher

8 Support Policy Updates <Insert Picture Here>

9 Lifetime Support Stages 5 Years Premier 3 Years Extended Sustaining Extra cost Indefinite

10 Lifetime Support Coverage oracle.com/support/lifetime-support-policy.html

11 Where can I find authoritative dates?

12 Database 11.2 Support Stages 5 Years Premier 3 Years Extended Indefinite Sustaining Sep 2009 Jan 2015 Jan 2018

13 Database 11.1 Support Stages 5 Years Premier 3 Years Extended Indefinite Sustaining Aug 2007 Aug 2012 Aug 2015

14 Database 10.2 Support Stages 5 Years Premier 3 Years Extended Indefinite Sustaining Jul 2005 Jul 2010 Jul 2013

15 Database 9.2 Support Stages 5 Years Premier 3 Years Extended Indefinite Sustaining Jul 2002 Jul 2007 Jul 2010

16 Database Support Windows You Are Here

17 Premier Support Policies for Technology Products New Database & Fusion Middleware patches released for Current patchset Previous patchset for 12 months after current patchset s release New patches include Quarterly Critical Update Patches (security fixes) Quarterly Patch Set Updates Patch bundles Interim patches (a.k.a. one-off or emergency patches)

18 Technology Products Premier Support Examples Database Database patchset released in February 2008 Database patchset supported until February 2009 All previous patchsets (e.g ) desupported Fusion Middleware Oracle Identity Management patchset released in November 2008 Oracle Identity Management patchset supported until November 2009 All previous patchsets (e.g ) desupported

19 Technology Products Support Policy References Oracle Lifetime Support Policy Database, FMW, EM Grid Control, and OCS Software Error Correction Support Policy (Note ) Release Schedule of Current Database Patch Sets (Note ) Oracle Application Server 10g Release 2 (10.1.2) Support Status and Alerts (Note )

20 Implications for E-Business Suite Users Articles on blogs.oracle.com/stevenchan On Database Patching and Support: A Primer for E-Business Suite Users On Apps Tier Patching and Support: A Primer for E-Business Suite Users

21 EBS 12.1 Support Stages 5 Years Premier 3 Years Extended Indefinite Sustaining May 2009 May 2014 May 2017

22 EBS 12.0 Support Stages 5 Years Premier 3 Years Extended Indefinite Sustaining Jan 2007 Jan 2012 Jan 2015

23 EBS Support Stages 6 Years 1 st Year Fees Waived Premier 3 Years Extended Indefinite Sustaining Nov 2004 Nov 2010 Nov 2013

24 E-Business Suite Support Windows You Are Here

25 Latest ATG Baselines for E-Business Suite Premier Support New Premier Support patches and certifications are released for the current and previous ATG patchset on a given EBS baseline E-Business Suite 12.1 baseline EBS (Patch ) EBS E-Business Suite 12.0 baseline ATG Release Update Patch 7 (Patch ) ATG Release Update Patch 6 (Patch ) E-Business Suite baseline ATG Rollup Patchset 7 (Patch ) ATG Rollup Patchset 6 (Patch ) For details see Note

26 ATG Baseline Premier Support Example Release Latest supported ATG Rollup Patchsets are 6 and 7 You report an issue with ATG RUP 5 Issue cannot be reproduced with ATG RUP 6 or 7 You must upgrade to ATG RUP 6 or 7 first If your issue persists, a new patch is released for either ATG RUP 6 or 7

27 Minimum Extended Support Baseline for EBS 11i EBS with Consolidated Update 2 ATG Rollup Patchset 6 (Patch ) Database or Forms6i Patchset 19 (Version , Patch ) Oracle HTTP Server MLR Patchset Sun Java Runtime Engine (JRE) 1.6.0_03 or higher and EBS patches listed in Note for all licensed products Subject to change; check Note regularly

28 E-Business Suite Certifications & Roadmap <Insert Picture Here>

29 The following is intended to outline our general product direction. It is intended for information purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any contract. It is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described for Oracle's products remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.

30 Only Lifetime Support Documents are authoritative The following slides summarize support dates from the various Oracle Lifetime Support documents listed here: These slides are for your convenience only they are not authoritative. Do not use this presentation as your sole source of support information. You must check the source documents for the authoritative support dates.

31 Interpreting These Diagrams Premier Support for Discoverer 4i ended as of Oct Discoverer 4i Oct 2006 Discoverer 10g Dec 2011 Premier Support for Discoverer 10g is available until Dec is expected to be a terminal release Nov 2010 STOP We plan to certify JRE 7 with EBS JRE _03+ JRE 7

32 EBS Release Roadmap Nov Jun Nov Jan May 2014? STOP STOP Legend Desupported Supported Future

33 Desktop Client Certifications & Roadmap <Insert Picture Here>

34 E-Business Desktop Client Certifications E-Business Suite Release Recommended Version 11i 12 Microsoft Windows Windows 7 Windows 7 Apple Mac OS X Also Supported 11i 12 Microsoft Windows Vista SP2 Vista SP 1 XP SP 3 XP SP 2 Vista SP2 Vista SP 1 XP SP 3 XP SP 2 Check Notes & for your target configuration

35 E-Business Desktop Browser Certifications E-Business Suite Release Recommended Version 11i 12 Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 8 Mozilla Firefox Apple Safari 2 3 Also Supported 11i 12 Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, 7 6, 7 Mozilla Firefox Apple Safari 2 Check Notes & for your target configuration

36 Future Desktop Platform Certifications E-Business Suite 11i Mac OS X Leopard (10.5) + Safari 3 Both 11i & 12 Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6) + Safari 4

37 EBS Desktop Java Client Roadmap JInit 1.1 Dec 2008 JInit 1.3 Jul 2009 JRE 1.4 Dec 2006 JRE 5 Apr 2008 JRE _03+ JRE 7 EBS 11i only JInit JInitiator JRE Java Runtime Engine Legend Desupported Supported Future

38 EBS + Microsoft Office Roadmap MS Office 2003 MS Office 2007 MS Office 2010 Legend Desupported Supported Future

39 Database Tier Certifications & Roadmap <Insert Picture Here>

40 EBS Database Roadmap 9iR2 Jul gR1 Jan Feb Oct STOP STOP Legend Desupported Supported Future

41 Supported Database Options & Features Active Data Guard Advanced Compression Advanced Networking Option Data Guard Redo Apply with Physical Standby Database Partitioning Database Vault Native PL/SQL Compilation Oracle Connection Manager Oracle Label Security (OLS) Real Application Clusters (RAC) Real Application Testing SecureFiles Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) (Column & Tablespace) Transportable Database Virtual Private Database (VPD) Certified configurations vary by EBS and DB release; check documentation

42 Future Database Tier Certifications Active Projects Cross-Platform Transportable Tablespaces (XTTS) Using Active Data Guard databases for EBS reporting Streamlining Real Application Clusters + EBS documentation Under Evaluation Shared database ORACLE_HOMEs

43 Application Server Tier Certifications & Roadmap <Insert Picture Here>

44 EBS 11i Forms6i Roadmap PS 16 PS 17 PS 18 PS 19 Jul 2008 PS 20 PS Forms6i Patchset Legend Desupported Supported Future

45 EBS 12 Forms 10g Roadmap Forms Forms Apr 2009 Forms Forms Legend Desupported Supported Future

46 EBS 12 Java Runtime Roadmap OC4J OC4J OC4J OC4J OC4J OC4J Oracle Containers for Java Legend Desupported Supported Future

47 EBS Application Tier Java Certifications Java (J2SE / JDK) Release Platform Windows, Linux, Sun Dec 2006 Oct 2008 Oct 2009 Dec 2011 HP-UX Jan 2007 Feb 2010 IBM AIX Sep 2007 Sep 2011 Sep 2012 Important: Check your O/S vendor s support site for specific details Legend Desupported Supported Future

48 External Integrations Certifications & Roadmap <Insert Picture Here>

49 EBS Business Intelligence Roadmap Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Discoverer 4i Oct 2006 Discoverer 10g Dec 2011 Discoverer 11g Jun Oracle Business Intelligence Applications Legend Desupported Supported Future

50 EBS Web Authoring Roadmap Portal 9i Jul 2005 Portal Dec 2011 Portal Jun 2014 WebCtr Dec 2010 WebCtr Jun 2014 STOP EBS 12 only WebCtr WebCenter Legend Desupported Supported Future

51 EBS User Authentication Roadmap EBS Built-In Security SSO to OAM Dec 2010 OAM Jun 2014 SSO Dec 2011 STOP STOP SSO Oracle Single Sign-On OAM Oracle Access Manager Legend Desupported Supported Future

52 EBS User Management Roadmap EBS Built-In Directory OID to OID Jun 2014 OID Dec STOP OID Oracle Internet Directory Legend Desupported Supported Future

53 Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control Roadmap Application Management Pack (AMP) AMP 2.0 AMP AMP OEM 10gR3 OEM 10gR4 OEM 10gR5 OEM 11gR1 AMP 3.0 AMP 3.1 Desupported as of Mar 2010 OEM Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control Legend Desupported Supported Future

54 Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control Roadmap Application Change Management Pack (ACMP) ACMP 3.0 ACMP 3.1 OEM 10gR3 OEM 10gR4 OEM 10gR5 OEM 11gR1 Desupported as of Mar 2010 OEM Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control Legend Desupported Supported Future

55 External Fusion Middleware Certifications Oracle Application Server 10g Module Release 11i Release 12 Oracle SOA Suite (SOA development) BPEL (prepackaged SOA integrations) Secure Enterprise Search

56 Security-Related Certifications & Roadmap <Insert Picture Here>

57 Security-Related Configurations 11i 12 Tablespace Encryption Column Encryption Database Vault Advanced Networking Option (ANO) SecureFiles Virtual Private Database (VPD) Oracle Label Security (OLS)

58 Other Security-Related Certifications Certified by Fusion Middleware Product Teams 11i 12 Identity Manager Enterprise Single Sign-On Identity Federation Oracle Virtual Directory via OID

59 IPv6 Certified 11i 12 Reverse proxy architecture IPv6 IPv4 IPv4

60 US Federal Desktop Core Configuration (FDCC) Hardened client certification for US Federal agency E-Business Suite CU2, ATG RUP 6 Native Sun JRE plug-in 1.6.0_03 Vista Enterprise Windows XP SP2 FDCC 1.1 Configuration Future EBS 12 + US Federal Desktop Core Configuration 1.1

61 Other Cool Stuff Certifications & Roadmap <Insert Picture Here>

62 Top Use Cases for Virtualized Environments 1. Short-term disposable test environment Weeks of use: 6-10 Desired availability: within 1 week 2. Proof-of-concept environments Desired availability: within 1 hour 3. Hardware sharing for multiple dev/test environments Time slicing existing limited CPU resources Allows for up to 50% more environments Requires disk capacity for all environments 4. Disaster Recovery Off-site or in cloud

63 EBS Virtualization on Oracle VM Server Pool Pool resources Load-balance Migrate Auto-Failover VM VM VM VM Server Pool Oracle VM Manager Oracle VM Manager Browser-based Java server Scalable & Available Oracle VM Servers XE, SE, EE or RAC Database Oracle VM Servers Hold guest VMs Enterprise Linux Windows Shared Storage Pool Options NAS/NFS SAN iscsi

64 Certified E-Business Suite + Oracle VM Configurations Linux x86 32-bit CU2 with 11i.ATG_PF.H.RUP5 (Patch ) or later (RUP2) or later (including 12.1) Linux 64-bit - OEL 4 and RHEL 4 on x or later (including 12.1) Linux 64-bit - OEL 5 and RHEL 5 on x or later (including 12.1) Windows Server 2003 (32-bit) with PV driver v1.0.8 or higher or later (including 12.1) See Notes /

65 EBS Virtualization Templates Self-contained EBS 12 system in two Oracle VM images EBS Vision Demo Database tier (OEL DB) EBS Application Server tier (OEL 5.3)

66 EBS-specific Oracle VM Capabilities Oracle VM E-Business Suite Virtualization Kit Scripts to configure and wire the EBS VMs in each image Set instance names, IP addresses upon first boot Live migration between application tier nodes! Conventional application tier failures, logout all users on a failed node End-user sessions on a virtual node in a VM server pool can be migrated to a different node transparently

67 E-Business Suite + Oracle VM Resources Free Downloads Oracle VM Template Developers Guide For Oracle E-Business Suite (Note ) Virtualization Kit Scripts for E-Business Suite OVM Templates (Patch ) Oracle E-Business Suite High Availability on Oracle VM (Note )

68 Amazon Virtual Private Cloud Customer s isolated AWS resources Subnets Secure VPN Connection over the Internet VPN Gateway Rout er Amazon Web Services Cloud Customer s Network

69 Using Amazon EC2 Cloud To Host EBS Instances Suitable for non-production instances: Demonstration instances, test environments, development environments Since Amazon EC2 uses a virtualization engine that is not supported by Oracle and has not been certified with E-Business Suite, this environment is not supported for production usage of E-Business Suite Oracle will provide support for issues that reproduce on standard certified configurations. Users will be directed to Amazon for any virtualization-specific issues

70 E-Business Suite Technology Stack Blog blogs.oracle.com/stevenchan Direct from EBS Development Latest EBS techstack news Certification announcements Primers, FAQs, tips Desupport reminders Advanced architectures Statements of Direction Early Adopter Programs Subscribe via & RSS

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72 The preceding is intended to outline our general product direction. It is intended for information purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any contract. It is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described for Oracle's products remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.

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