Kudos to Oracle for making virtual machine templates available for the Oracle/Siebel applications.
Oracle is also making templates available for some of their lower level components as well (Oracle 11g, Enterprise Linux, Enterprise Manager), but the applications template are a bit of a milestone. To the best of my knowledge, this is the first instance of anyone making an enterprise application available via virtual machine this way.
Enterprise application delivery via virtual machine has the potential to flip some momentum back from the SaaS model (who generally have offered easy trials of their applications; just sign up and start using it). On premise software becoming simple enough to install and manage as to be competitive with SaaS is a much broader topic than I'll touch on in this post, but as Vinnie would tell you, there's lots of room for improvement with on-premise software.
Now all we need for PeopleSoft is for Oracle to start delivering new PeopleSoft releases and maintenance packs this way. I've been chewing on Jeff Robbins' ear on this topic for a little while, so this just provides some new fuel for me :-)
Update : Oracle is now making PeopleSoft applications available as well.
Labels: 2008, Oracle, Sysadmin, Upgrade, Virtualization
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GSC always have fully patched DMO databases available so someone at Oracle is doing this patching.
I would really like to see a monthly release of a fully patched DMO database in a VM or at the very least in it's raw datamover DAT file form. This would have massive value to customers and GSC alike.
Graham
Besides keeping DMO patched should be less than full time with Change Assistant. Maybe not completely pain free, but certainly much better than it used to be.