Executive Summary
As Oracle has released new versions of the JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, and Siebel business
applications, many Oracle customers are evaluating their strategy for upgrading to these
applications, and the future investment in maintaining their enabling technologies. Customers
want to ensure that Oracle applications will enable their company to achieve a competitive
advantage, improve business agility, and enable innovation.
For Oracle applications that run on the Microsoft
®
platform, customers want assurance that
Microsoft Application Platform enabling technologies including Microsoft
®
SQL Server
®
are
reliable, secure, manageable, economical, and fully integrate with Oracle applications.
1
In this regard, Microsoft is working with Oracle Corporation through its Applications Unlimited
plan
2
to ensure that SQL Server 2008 and Microsoft
®
Windows Server
®
2008 are certified and
fully compatible with the latest versions of the JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, and Siebel
applications.
3
In particular, this certification ensures that earlier versions of SQL Server can be
easily upgraded to SQL Server 2008.
Table 1 shows the Oracle application versions that are certified with Microsoft SQL Server
2008.
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Oracle application SQL Server 2008 Oracle application versions
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne EnterpriseOne Tools version 8.98.1
PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleSoft Enterprise applications versions 8.9, 9.0, and
above
PeopleTools versions 8.49.13, 8.50, and above
Siebel Siebel versions 7.8, 8.0, and 8.1
Table 1 SQL Server 2008 Supported Oracle Applications
SQL Server 2008 is the optimal data platform for Oracle applications that run on Microsoft. It is
an enterprise-ready data management and analysis platform that provides Oracle applications
with the highest levels of scalability, reliability, and security. SQL Server 2008 supports large-
scale Independent Software Vendor (ISV) applications, provides enhanced performance
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, and
takes full advantage of the latest hardware and software architectures.
SQL Server 2008 contains a compelling set of new features and capabilities that make it ideal
for an enterprise environment. By upgrading from SQL Server 2000 or 2005 to SQL Server
2008, Oracle applications customers can receive many immediate business and technical
benefits, without the need to make application changes.
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http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/application-platform.aspx
2
http://www.oracle.com/applications/applications-unlimited.html
3
The latest versions of all Oracle applications (JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, Siebel) are, or shortly will be,
certified on SQL Server 2008 (JD Edwards by early 2009).
4
PeopleTools 8.49.13 requires SQL Server 2008 cumulative update 1 (CU1 ).
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http://www.microsoft.com/isv/oracle/
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