Big Red drops ominous mention of 'Market Driven Support' beyond 2027 - but there's good news for AIX users
Oracle has shocked its customers by releasing new end-of-life conditions for its middleware products that thousands of large organizations rely on in their enterprise application deployments. In a missive published online earlier this month, Big Red warned that support for the widely used Oracle Fusion Middleware 12c Release 2 was approaching a “critical milestone.” Top-level Premier Support is set to end in December 2026, while Extended Support will stop by the end of December 2027.“After these dates, Oracle will no longer provide updates or security fixes for this product version. Technical assistance will be provided as defined in the Oracle Lifetime Support Policy. All customers and partners are strongly encouraged to begin planning and executing upgrades or migration strategies to currently supported Oracle Fusion Middleware releases as soon as possible,” the note said.
Martin Biggs, vice president and general manager of third-party support specialist Spinnaker, said users would be concerned about the lack of time to plan for the migration or strategic change to a new platform and to recruit scarce skills.
