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By: John Dolen

October 11, 2019 4:33 am

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Update on Oracle Certifications with SLES 15

Latest Versions of Oracle Database and Oracle Fusion Middleware Certified The latest versions of Oracle Database and Oracle Fusion Middleware and related products are available with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 15. This provides flexibility to customers who are migrating from SLES 12 to 15, and for Oracle customers who are still running older versions […]

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By: John Dolen

May 30, 2019 4:35 pm

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Oracle Database 19c is Available on SUSE Linux Enterprise

While attending Oracle OpenWorld late last year, I was able to hear firsthand from Oracle Product Management about the new features in Oracle Database 19c.  At that time, this release was in beta.  Thanks to combined efforts from Oracle and SUSE engineering, I am pleased to report that Oracle Database 19c is certified […]

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By: John Dolen

March 27, 2019 10:49 pm

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Oracle Product Certifications with SUSE Linux Enterprise

Oracle and SUSE have a long history of collaboration as technology partners, resulting in an outstanding experience, including improved efficiency, increased performance and security, and higher availability for clients who choose the combination of Oracle products running on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES).  Hundreds of Oracle applications run on SLES across several product families.[…]

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By: Naji Almahmoud

September 22, 2014 12:12 am

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Simpler Future with SAP and Partners: Your Choice of Innovation at Lower Cost and Higher Performance

Numerous practical examples demonstrate that SAP solutions with partners are continuing to make great strides in the IT market. This is especially true for SAP customers who migrate their business-critical applications to save costs and increase availability and system performance, including companies that rely on the in-memory database SAP HANA or want to make their […]

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By: Naji Almahmoud

February 11, 2014 12:12 pm

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What did I learn from SAP in 10 years of partnership?

Introduction Early 2004, I joined the EMEA Alliance team at Novell following the acquisition of SUSE few months earlier. Given my background in software development of business applications, I was pleased to be responsible for Oracle alliance in EMEA and for SAP Alliance globally. For couple of years I engaged actively with Oracle team in […]

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By: coolguys-suse

March 23, 2012 8:08 am

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Installing Oracle PHP extensions in SUSE Linux

We work a lot with SLES, Oracle and PHP. When installing SLES on your server there is an option in software selection under “Primary Functions” that says “Oracle Server Base”. This copies the scripts required to get Oracle up and running once it has been successfully installed. Unfortunately it does not include the […]

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By: amiej

November 3, 2011 8:47 pm

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SUSE Continues Broad Platform Support for OCFS2

OCFS2 Remains the Cluster File System Choice for All SUSE Certified Hardware Platforms Guest post - Kai Dupke, Senior Product Manager, SUSE Oracle's decision (Oracle Doc ID 1253272.1) to limit its support for OCFS2 to Oracle Unbreakable Linux on Intel hardware has no impact on SUSE customers and you may continue to run OCFS2 […]

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By: Darren Davis

July 18, 2011 1:41 pm

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Oracle Support Documents Underline Reasons to Choose SLES 11 for Oracle Installations

Oracle Support recently released two documents describing Oracle's support policy with respect to ASMLib and OCFS2 on RHEL 6: Oracle Doc ID 1089399.1: ”For RHEL 6, Oracle will only provide ASMLib software and updates via Unbreakable Linux Network (ULN). Oracle will no longer provide ASMLib packages for Red Hat kernels.” Oracle Doc […]

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