WebCenter Interaction 10gR3 Patch 1

AFAIK, this is the first patchset for ALUI/WCI done by Oracle after the BEA acquisition.

I have to say that the new versioning in line with Oracle Database or Fusion middleware is a bit confusing to old Plumtree and ALUI customers.

In fact, WCI 10gR3 (10.3.0.0.0) is equivalent to ALI 6.5 MP2 (6.5.2). So 10gR3 patch 1 is equivalent to 10.3.0.1.0.

Yesterday, Oracle announced the release of 10.3.0.1 of WebCenter Interaction and Collaboration a patch release on top of the 10gR3 versions of each product. These patch releases contain a set of bug fixes related to each product as well as a new Desktop Integration feature for Collaboration called the Office Task Bar Panel. Each of the bugs that have been fixed are listed and summarized within the Release Notes for each product. Links to each can be found below:

WCI 10.3.0.1 Release Notes

WebCenter Collaboration 10.3.0.1 Release Notes

The patches for all certified operating systems are now available on Metalink (soon to be My Oracle Support).

Log into Metalink and go to the Patches & Updates tab, and do a Simple Search for patch number 8935278 (WCI) or 8935708 (WCC) and you can download the patch.

Follow the instructions in the Upgrade Guide for WCI 10.3.0.1.0 to perform the upgrade. Have fun!

It looks like 10gR3 (6.5) branch is still being maintained by Oracle. Also, based on the SOD documenent from Oracle website, there will be 11g release for WCI to replace the 10gR3 in WebCenter Suite 11gR1 stack. Let's wait and see.

Oracle BPM 10gR3 (ALBPM 6.5) GA

Oracle BPM 10gR3 which was BEA AquaLogic BPM, Fuego BPM is GA now.

From the new versioning, we can clearly see that it is 10.3. However, in fact it is 6.5.

After the acquisition, ALBPM has been renamed to Oracle BPM and put into the Oracle Fusion Middleware stack, along with Oracle BPEL Process Manager and Oracle BPA Suite.

Differences between BPM Suite offerings
Oracle BPM
Human and System Centric BPM with SOA. Easy integration with WebCenter Interaction (AquaLogic Interaction, Plumtree Portal).
Business user friendly
Collaborative
Agile
BPMN & BPEL
SOA architecture
Apps integration, AIA


Oracle BPEL Process Manager
System Centric
SOA architecture
Apps integration, AIA
BPEL
High performance STP
Round-tripping with BPA

Oracle BPA Suite
Methodology Driven Process Modeling and Analysis.
Process Experts
Six Sigma, Lean
Methodology
Hierarchical Modeling
Documentation


Download: http://edelivery.oracle.com
or
http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/bpm/index.html

Fill in some necessary info and go to Oracle Fusion Middleware, choose your platform, you will finally find them in Oracle Application Server 10g Release 3 (10.1.3) Media Pack.

Studio
Enterprise Standalone
Enterprise for Weblogic Server
Enterprise For Websphere Application Server

I have no idea why the links on the page below haven't been upgraded yet. Maybe Oracle is going to decommission the BEA page.
http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/ias/bea_main.html

Oracle BPM 10gR3 docs
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13154_01/bpm/docs65/index.html
The docs are still not helpful enough, I hope that Oracle improves its newly acquired products. At least make them as good as Oracle Database docs.

Interoperability matrix:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/bpm/obpm_config_matrix.html

All BEA docs, including new versions of WebCenter Interaction suite (AquaLogic User Interaction).
http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/bea.html

Enjoy the new release. I believe that the next GA will be named 11g, if there is such thing.

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