Oracle Apps Releases R12.0 and R12.1

1. R12.0.X - Different Versions and when were they launched. What is Oracle's guidance wrt support timelines?

Release Dates of R12.0.X :

R12.0 January 2007R12.0.1 January 2007R12.0.2 July 2007R12.0.3 October 2007R12.0.4 April 2008R12.0.5 (Financials and HRMS) May 2008R12.0.6 December 2008R12.0.7 (HRMS) May 2009

E-Business Suite Release 12.0

As per Lifetime Support Policy: Oracle Applications, this release version is in Extended Support. There is an uplift fee waiver in effect for all 3 years of Extended Support from February, 2012 through January, 2015. Customers on Extended Support for 12.0 are advised to have the minimum prerequisites patch level, or above, as identified in the E-Business Suite Error Correction Support Policy (Doc ID 1195034.1).

These support date extensions only cover internal EBS application tier technology stack components such as Oracle Forms and Reports, Oracle HTTP Server, Oracle JServ, Oracle Containers for Java (OC4J), and Java (JDK and JRE).

They do not extend support dates for the Oracle Database or optional externally-integrated application tier components such as Discoverer, Oracle Single Sign-On, Oracle Access Manager, Oracle Internet Directory, or other Fusion Middleware products.

2. R12.1.x - Different Versions and when were they launched. What is Oracle's guidance wrt support timelines?

Release Dates of R12.1.X :

R12.1 May 2009

R12.1.1 May 2009

R12.1.2 December 2009

R12.1.3 August 2010

E-Business Suite Release 12.1

As per the Lifetime Support Policy: Oracle Applications, this release version is in Premier Support. The following is a Support Policy update for this release version:

Premier Support for E-Business Suite Release 12.1 has been extended by 31 months from May, 2014 to December, 2016.

The Extended Support period for Release 12.1 has been further extended by an additional year and will now go through December, 2019. Uplift fees are waived for all years of Extended Support (January, 2017 – December, 2019) for customers with an active support contract. Customers are recommended to have the minimum prerequisites patch level, or above, as identified in the E-Business Suite Error Correction Support Policy (Doc ID 1195034.1).

Oracle published these changes in September 2013 in conjunction with the 12.2 GA Release, with the intention of reinforcing the customer choice to run E-Business Suite 12.1 or 12.2 for many years. This change update builds upon the prior change announced in October 2012, which had moved the Extended Support date by an additional year.