Announcement: 11gR1 (11.1.0.6) Certification With EBS Release 12

Oracle Database 11gR1 Version 11.1.0.6 is now certified with E-Business Suite Release 12. Certify on Metalink is in the process of being updated with this information.
This announcement for EBS Release 12 version 12.0.4 and up includes:

Oracle Database 11gR1 Version 11.1.0.6
Oracle Database 11gR1 Version 11.1.0.6  Real Application Clusters (RAC)

Platforms certified

Linux x86
IBM AIX
Sun Solaris SPARC
HP-UX PA-RISC
HP-UX Itanium
Linux [...]

MAA training on EBS R12 last week at the Joint Solution Center ORACLE/IBM

Last week the Joint Solution Center ORACLE/IBM (Montpellier, France) offered opportunity for Oracle EMEA Appstech Community to install Oracle Apps Release 12 in a MAA environnement. 21 participants over 5 days took part in the hands-on labs for installation Oracle E-business Suite R12.0.4 on different IBM hardware available ( Linux 64.bit, AIX and Z-Linux). Students [...]

RAC Extended/Stretched Cluster

I will not present RAC on this post but I would like to share with us some information on new architecture asked by customers named “RAC Extended/Stretched Cluster“.
The benefits of RAC are :
Full utilization of resources, from 1 to n nodes for one and ONLY one physical database.
Protection against Nodes failure …

But what’s happen in [...]

Oracle EBS 12 With MAA on IBM Power

Last week I participated as Speaker of 2008 CSI Interchange IBM event at Montpellier the theme was “Optimizing IT together” where I presented this session “Oracle EBS 12 With MAA on IBM Power ” (see above).
Today 24/7 environnement, organization must keep critical business applications and information accessible at al times, while ensuring a predictable quality [...]

Node Affinity. Interesting usage of Oracle RAC with E-Business Suite

Oracle RAC (Real Application Cluster) is used generally in a High Availability (HA 24/7 availability—Provide continuous uptime for database applications) and/or Scalability (Expand capacity by simply adding servers to your cluster) context. But another very useful but not wellknown but extremely interesting context is the NODE AFFINITY (called “Application Affinity” too).
We can implement [...]