1. Performance & Config Mgmt / Forms Modernization Reasons to move from BEA WebLogic Server/iAS to Oracle WebLogic Server Fumiko Yamashita Safe Harbor Statement: The views expressed on this presentation are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Oracle. The following is intended to outline our general product direction. It is intended for information purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any contract. It is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making a purchasing decision. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described for Oracle’s products remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.

2. WebLogic Server Fundamental Advantages WebLogic Suite Key Benefits Reduce Operational cost by 50% Integrated management suite – effective visibility and control Real Operations Automation – automation of operations and administrations Real Operations Insight – diagnose problems in development and production without instrumentation Reduce planned and unplanned downtime by at least 50% ActiveCache – integrated data grid layer for continuous data availability WebLogic Cluster – best in class availability and scalability solution for JEE applications Whole server and service migration – automatic recovery from server or service failure Side by side deployment – zero downtime application upgrade MAN/WAN state replication – site failure recovery Increase web application capacity by 4x on existing server investment ActiveCache – integrated data grid layer for session state management for massive scalability and performance. Requires fewer application server instances to support similar loads JRockit – improve performance by 20% or more. Fastest JVM on the market. Innovate while reducing risk and complexity WebLogic Server – converged application server platform with key capabilities from OC4J Enterprise Grid Messaging – messaging capabilities necessary for SOA. Fastest JMS engine on the market. JDeveloper, OEPE – choice; simplified and unified development platform Simplified license management On-ramp to Oracle’s strategic Application Platform ©2009 Oracle Corporation

3. BEA WebLogic Server AE/PE Support BEA Products Oracle 10gR3 - Oracle 11gR1 - http://www.oracle.com/support/lifetime-support-policy.html

4. Support Comparison http://www.oracle.com/support/lifetime-support-policy.html At the end of the price list http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pricing/price-lists/index.html > US Oracle Technology Commercial Price List

5. iAS Support Forms & Reports, Portal, iAS SE One Last 10g > version (EBS stays with this version) WebLogic Server Basic 11g > http://www.oracle.com/us/support/lifetime-support/index.html

6. Migration Path iAS & WL AE/PE/SE/EE/Suite Comparison Matrix S: Available Standalone, Opt: Available as Option, *: Not quite equivalent This is only for a reference. I’m still in a process to refine it to make it more accurate. AE: Advantage Edition SE: Standard Edition Suite: WebLogic Suite PE: Premium Edition EE: Enterprise Edition iAS: Internet Application Server | BEA | Oracle | Benefits: HP: High Performance PM: Performance Management V: Virtualization/Consolidation/Private Cloud AE: Advantage Edition PE: Premium Edition

7. Forms Versions & Upgrade PathHow to upgrade ? Client-server to Web or Web to Web 1985 1990 1995 2000 2009 11g 10g 5.0 6.0 9i 2.0 2.3 3.0 4.0 4.5 6i 1.0 PL/SQL Version 9 8 9 2 1.1 no PL/SQL Character mode GUI mode Client-Server Deployment Web Deployment

8. Upgrade this way is easy !!! Forms 6i can read any .fmb (.inp) format from SQL*Forms 3.0 to Forms 6.0 Forms 11g can read Forms 6.0 / 6i .fmb files Upgrade this way (Client-server to web deployment ) is easy !!! may require some work (if specific features in use) Forms Versions & Upgrade Path How to upgrade ? Client-serverto Web or Web to Web 1985 1990 1995 2000 10g 11g 5.0 6.0 9i 2.0 2.3 3.0 4.0 4.5 6i 1.0 Client-Server Deployment Web Deployment

9. Business Challenges Version Upgrade/Hardware Refresh (Renewal) Paying more just to stay on old versions > Upgrade and reduce the support cost > Additional licenses Expired Support No proper support provided when troubles happen > Spend many hours trying to resolve by themselves > better to obtain support, possibly new licenses instead of paying the unpaid support period Forms Modernization Concerned with support ending Dec 2011, want to upgrade to the latest version 11g > WLSuite. If not convinced, Basic Wondering how we can utilize the investment in Forms application when additional development is required. Forms & Reports customers wanting to develop additional modules in Java > iAS EE (12K) iAS EE customers wanting to integrate with other apps using SOA > WL Suite + SOA Suite to (10K +57.5K) iAS EE customers wanting to develop Java applications and integrate manually > WLSuite. If not convinced, then Basic Have issues maintaining many client apps. Want to move from client/server apps to Web apps. Forms & Reports customers moving to Web > iAS EE (12K) Performance Monitoring Difficulties & Performance Issues Cost of losing revenue and business opportunities during the downtime or due to slow applications Cost of troubleshooting by spending many hours of IT administrators Configuration Management Difficulties Time consuming and difficult to support many different platforms > Consolidate to WLSuite Cost of losing revenue and business opportunities during the downtime caused by improper/inconsistent configurations Cost of synchronizing development/test/production environments manually Cost of migrating configurations from development to test, test to production environments manually Virtualization/Consolidation/Application Grid/Private Cloud Computing Too many apps servers with different platform. Hard to manage. No visibility to the health/service level of systems. Too many servers not utilized.

10. Business Benefits Version Upgrade/Hardware Refresh (Renewal) Reduce operating cost by upgrading the version and reducing the support fee To WL Suite: Reduce operational cost by 50%. Reduce planned & unplanned downtime by at least 50%. Increase web application capacity by 4x on existing server investment. Innovate while reducing risk and complexity. Expired Support Ensure business continuity. Better SLA for business. Less cost to troubleshoot/upgrade/maintain by utilising Support Forms Modernization Get the latest support with the latest version and get additional features (Diag Pk, mgmt features (Opn Ctl), and higher performance (JRockit, WL Real Time) by running critical apps on WLS 11g. Easy to develop web applications using ADF/TopLink/JDeveloper. Developers don’t have to be expert Java programmers. Enable web app integration and easy client maintenance by going from client/server to Web Forms or going SOA. Performance Monitoring Difficulties & Performance Issues Simplify and automate troubleshooting of any performance issues > Reduce operation cost and downtime Superior performance and higher % to meet SLAs. Ensure business continuity. More business by higher availability. Higher end-user/customer satisfaction. Configuration Management Difficulties Reduce downtime and increase sales/availability by making the troubleshooting easier Reduce system development/migration cost by automating the synchronization/maintenance of configuration Virtualization/Consolidation/Application Grid/Private Cloud Computing Utilise the hardware resource by virtualizing/consolidating Manage consolidated infrasstructure from a single management portal