Update - Oct. 27 - OK, now they are really available.

I haven't had a chance to check this out yet, but I saw a Tweet that Oracle has posted the Oracle VM template for PeopleSoft HCM and Campus Solutions.

The template (along with other Oracle VM templates) is available here. According to the webpage:

• Installed applications include: PeopleSoft HRCS 9.0 and PeopleTools 8.49


• Installed technical foundations include: Oracle Database 10g, Oracle Tuxedo 9.1, and Oracle WebLogic 9.2

Awesome. Way to go Oracle.

update - June 5thI got the scoop on why the template disappeared after being posted. Basically it wasn't ready to go yet and the public posting was just a case of someone being a little too eager.

The person I spoke with was surprised at how much interest that we were seeing though. So if this is something that you are interested in working with comment here or on Oracle Mix to let the developers know.

Labels: 2009, Oracle, Virtualization

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