Re: ***UNCHECKED*** poor Oracle and FMW versions

An interesting study in software development and dependencies.

By the very nature of something called "fusion" middleware, there are dozens of Oracle-built applications that are dependent on FMW. EBS R12.2+, OBI 12c+, SOA 12c+, just to name a few, more on the way.

Each one of these applications puts a pin in the version of FMW upon which they have been developed, forcing Oracle to support all those versions for an extended period of time.  It is likely that there might never be a single supported version of FMW.

Is it worth it?  The methods for cloning are converging nicely, so that basic steps for cloning one FMW application are becoming similar for other FMW applications.  Change can be hell, but this is change for the good.

By the way, if you think there is a massive cost in development with teams of developers maintaining all those versions, platforms, and platform versions, not to mention the dependencies of FMW itself, think about the infrastructure and orchestration required for testing checked-in changes for regressions, never mind new faults. On a daily tempo too, I'm told.  Mind-boggling...

On 1/26/18 06:56, Patrice sur GMail wrote:
>
> I know Oracle tries to support its customers, but it’s a bit
> ridiculous that they are now supporting so many releases of Fusion
> Middleware, just look at this list of release numbers:
>
> Oracle Fusion Middleware, versions 11.1.1.7, 11.1.1.9, 11.1.2.3,
> 12.1.3.0, 12.2.1.2, 12.2.1.3
>
> Add to that the mix of operating systems, and those operating systems'
> versions … oy
>
> They must have teams of developers all doing the same thing for all
> these versions…   Pity the manager who has to track all the changes to
> the various releases on every platform.
>
>
> ​Somebody needs to buy all these poor people a coffee or something.
>
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