Oracle Database 11.2 Extended Support until 2020

Shortly after waiving the Extended Support fee for Oracle Database 11.2 until 2017, Oracle also updated its Lifetime Support Policy to extended support ending in December 2020. When the “Oracle Software Technical Support Policies” from Oct. 16 stated December 2020 “only for HP-UX and Itanium based systems”, the LSP paper mentioned and linked above has no such limitation any more. (See below picture for a quick overview).

Implications

• This also means, that 12.1 will be supported only for roughly half a year longer than 11.2.
• The discontinued licenses for Standard Edition (SE) and Standard Edition One (SE1) will end their support with end of Premier in August 2016, after that time the license has to be migrated to Standard Edition Two (SE2) with support.

Oracle Database 11.2 Extended Support Waiver

As announced today, Oracle waived the Database 11gR2 Extended Support for the period of February 2015 until May 2017.

See the paper with details here.

It’s time! June 16th, the DOAG Database Conference takes place in Düsseldorf, Van Der Valk Airport Hotel. Twenty-two specialized talks about Oracle Database, Replication, Tools and Security promise a great techie-day. See the schedule of lectures here.

I’m looking forward to seeing you there, having great corner talks about Oracle, life and lemons, tweeting with hashtag #DOAGDB15 and enjoying this great environment the hotel provides.

I’m also glad and honoured to be on the list of speakers: “Oracle Core for Beginners: In-Memory Column Store” at 11am.

Take care and see you tomorrow!
Martin