After much speculations and wait for Oracle Apps customers, Oracle has finally given the release date for Release 12 of Oracle applications on Jan 31 2007. For more information click here
Release 12 will bring lots of changes to techstack. Following are the major changes:
1. Developer release 10g instead of 6i
2. Application server 1022 will change to Application server release 10g
3. No more mod_plsql
4. OC4J will replace jserv
5. New concept of instance home (INST_TOP)
6. Middle tier oracle homes will change from iAS to 10g based iAS 10.1.3 and Develope 6i 806 Oracle home to Developer 10g 10.1.2 home
7. New filesystem layout.
For more information on new features of R12, keep checking my blogs. Also there is a very good post on Steve Chan’s blog:Click here for more details
