Back
in February, I blogged
about the pending certification of Oracle E-Business Suite on Oracle
Enterprise Linux 6 and RedHat Enterprise Linux 6. In that blog post,
I noted that the certification announcement was "planned"
but, of course, Oracle doesn't provide dates.
Well,
guess what? The waiting is finally over. As these things go, the
announcements come out in parts.
First,
on March 22, 2012, Oracle announced that Oracle Database 11gR2 and
Fusion Middleware 11gR1 were certified. (The press release can be
found here.)
And
today (April 4, 2012), through the Oracle
E-Business Suite Technology blog (known to many of us as "Steven
Chan's blog"), we have the E-Business Suite announcement
(available here)!
While
this is fantastic news, read the announcements carefully!
These
certifications are ONLY for Oracle Enterprise Linux 6 on the
x86-64 with the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK) version 1.
This
means that if you're on the x86-32 platform, or if you're on RedHat
Enterprise Linux 6, you'll have to wait a bit longer. The sames is
true for customers on Oracle Enterprise Linux 6 who have NOT upgraded to the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK) version 1 at ALL,
or have already upgraded to the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK)
version 2 which was released on March 13, 2012 (press release here).
According
to the database announcement, certification on RedHat Enterprise
Linux 6 (and Oracle Enterprise Linux 6 [without UEK]) should be
available within 90 days. I would expect the E-Business Suite R12
announcement to follow shortly behind.
What
about other E-Business Suite releases? At this point, I have no
actual information. But, I can speculate (with a good degree of
certainty) that you won't see any 11.5.10.2 certifications against
OEL/RHEL 6. E-Business Suite 11.5.10.2 is currently in Extended
Support. Even though the support fees have been waived (through the
end of Extended Support, November 30, 2012), Oracle doesn't typically
certify new platforms once a product goes into Extended Support. (A
more detailed discussion of Oracle's recent support announcements can
be found here.)
The
other question mark out there is OEL/RHEL 6.0 on x86-32. Personally,
if you're implementing R12 or upgrading to R12 on Linux, you should
be using an x86-64 distribution on x86-64 hardware. However,
certification on x86-32 is also forthcoming.
As
always, be sure to read/follow the relevant notes through the Certify
Tab on My Oracle Support
before you start any project to make sure that the combination of
components you intend to use are, in fact, certified. These
certifications will also detail the various always steps, operating
system parameters, packages, and even patches specific to your
combination that you will need to follow.
All
of this is excellent news, as the OEL and RHEL 5.x line is getting
pretty long in the tooth and is approaching it's end of life.
Now...
when will we get that R12.2 announcement? Collaborate, maybe?
OpenWorld? … the waiting continues.
– James
UPDATE 6/27/2012: Oracle has just announced certification for Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.0 (x86-32), Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 (x86-32 and x86-64), and Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) version 11 (64-bit). See Steven Chan's blog for more details: https://blogs.oracle.com/stevenChan/entry/oracle_e_business_suite_release3
UPDATE 6/27/2012: Oracle has just announced certification for Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.0 (x86-32), Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 (x86-32 and x86-64), and Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) version 11 (64-bit). See Steven Chan's blog for more details: https://blogs.oracle.com/stevenChan/entry/oracle_e_business_suite_release3
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