Mark Elley, Jireh's Managing Director, is in Orlando Florida for the annual Collab conference for the Oracle Applications community. A significant announcement that will be of interest to our JD Edwards customers is that Oracle has set a new Premier Support Timeline for the latest JDE releases.

In summary, EnterpriseOne release 9.0 Update 2 will now be treated as a major release. This means that Premier Support for this release will run until November 2015, not the earlier date of September 2013 which applies to 9.0 and 9.0 Update 1. A similar extension applies to World release A9.2 Update 1 .

This is a very encouraging response from Oracle to customer feedback that upgrades had been hard to justify with the previous Premier Support windows for the current releases.

The full text of the Oracle's announcement describes it as follows:

• "To help customers accelerate the value of their Oracle solutions, Oracle today announced that it has set a new start date of Oracle Premier Support for the latest releases of Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and Oracle’s JD Edwards World. 
• By setting the Oracle Premier Support timeline for Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 9.0 Update 2 and Oracle's JD Edwards World A9.2 Update 1 to their general availability dates, Oracle is giving customers more flexibility in their upgrade planning. 
• Premier Support for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 9.0 Update 2 will begin November 2010 and end November 2015, while Premier Support for JD Edwards World A9.2 Update 1 will now run from May 2010 to May 2015. 
• The changes to the support timeline will allow JD Edwards customers to begin upgrades to the current versions immediately and enjoy Premier Support until 2015 without incurring additional fees."