Andrew Holdsworth Director Real World and ISV Performance

Andrew Holdsworth Director Real World and ISV Performance Oracle Corporation Jerry Zarate Manager Oracle Development People. Soft Inc.

Oracle and People. Soft Development Status

Oracle and People. Soft Development Status Ÿ Introduction Ÿ Oracle/People. Soft Certification Status Ÿ Oracle Tecnology Adoption at People. Soft Ÿ People. Soft with RAC Ÿ People. Soft and Unicode Ÿ Oracle/ People. Soft Forums

Guidlines Ÿ No comments on current Oracle/People. Soft takeover Ÿ No comments on future JD Edwards migration Ÿ No conjecture on the future if takeover succeeds or fails Ÿ It is business as usual from an engineering perspective

Oracle/People. Soft Certification Status 9. 2. 0. 2. x

Oracle/People. Soft Certification Status 9. 2. 0. 2. x On IPF/Itanium/IA 64

Oracle/People. Soft Certification Status 9. 2. 0. 3. x

Oracle/People. Soft Certification Status 9. 2. 0. 3. x On IPF/Itanium/IA 64

Oracle/People. Soft Certification Status 9. 2. 0. 4(Target Q 42003)

Oracle/People. Soft Certification Status 9. 2. 0. 4. x On IPF/Itanium/IA 64

Oracle/People. Soft Certification Status 9. 2. 0. 2. x On Linux

Oracle/People. Soft Certification Plans Oracle Database 10 g Ÿ New RDBMS product releases are now subject to more rigorous testing scenarios Ÿ These scenarios include: – – Specific application functionality testing Volume testing Performance testing Certification testing Ÿ People. Soft adoption of new RDBMS products will be initially targeted to 180 days after GA release of the new RDBMS.

Oracle Technology Adoption at People. Soft Ÿ Ÿ Oracle 9 i RAC support Tempfile usage for Temp Tablespaces – PT 8. 44 Locally Managed Tablespaces – PT 8. 44 Literal Replacement: CURSOR_SHARING=FORCE/SIMILAR Ÿ Migration from Longs to LOBS in OCI – PT 9 Ÿ TIMESTAMP datatype – PT 9 Ÿ Schema Stats using dbms_stats package – PT 9

People. Soft with RAC Ÿ People. Soft has certified RAC Ÿ The following People. Soft releases and platform combinations are supported Ÿ PT 8. 42 and PT 8. 43 with Oracle 9. 2. 0. 2. x and 9. 2. 0. 3. x on the following platforms: – – – HPUX 11 i HP Tru 64 5. 1 Sun Solaris 7 and 8 AIX 4. 3 and 5. 1 (5. 2 Q 42003/Q 12004) Windows 2000 Ÿ People. Soft Red Papers covering best practices are available on People. Soft Customer Connection Website.

People. Soft with UTF 8 Ÿ If your requirements are for a global People. Soft implementation the Oracle Globalization features will be important. These include – – – UNICODE Database support – available with PT 8. 1 x and PT 8. 4 x Linguistic Sorting – default with PT 8. 4 x Character Semantics – implemented in PT 9