What's in the Pipeline for new PeopleSoft Releases?
On its web site, Oracle describes Fusion as "...Oracle's vision for next-generation enterprise technologies, applications, and services that will revolutionize business. The core of this vision is to protect customer investments and to extend and evolve the best functionality from PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, and Oracle product lines." Development is continuing on existing product lines. But, evenually, they will all merge into the new Fusion product.
As of this writing, the current version of PeopleSoft applications is 8.9. This version was released in the latter half of 2005, after the Oracle takeover. However, most of the work that was done in regard to defining the functions and features of this release were done under the prior regime. By the time the merger occurred, the 8.9 features had been frozen and most of the code had already been written.
Oracle has promised a 9.0 version of PeopleSoft Enterprise. I would expect that it will probably come out sometime in the third quarter of 2006. Unlike previous major releases, 9.0 will not include a move to a significantly different version of PeopleTools. When version 8 was released, it required a move to PeopleTools 8. PeopleTools 8 was significantly different than earlier releases. 7.5 applications were not compatible with 8.0 tools and visa versa. This is not the case for PeopleSoft 9.0, which will be released on PeopleTools 8.48. Earlier versions of PeopleSoft applications from 8.4 to 8.9 will be supported on on the 8.48 Tools release. There are no major architectural or systemic changes between 8.9 and 9.0. So, while the version number makes this seem like a major release like version 8, it is really more of a dot release. I expect that the difference between 8.9 and 9.0 will be comparable to the difference between 8.8 and 8.9. I expect that the only reason that they are calling it 9.0 is that it sounds a whole lot better from a marketing perspective than to call it 8.91 or something like that.
Version 9.0 will be the last release of PeopleSoft Enterprise. Once it's in the can, all development efforts will move to Fusion. Oracle has announced that there will be a direct upgrade path to Fusion from 8.8, 8.9, and 9.0 versions of PeopleSoft Enterprise. Organizations on earlier releases will only be able to upgrade to Fusion by first upgrading to one of these releases.
Next time, I'll take a look at the current support polices for PeopleSoft applications and what they mean for companies that are thinking about migrating to Fusion.
As of this writing, the current version of PeopleSoft applications is 8.9. This version was released in the latter half of 2005, after the Oracle takeover. However, most of the work that was done in regard to defining the functions and features of this release were done under the prior regime. By the time the merger occurred, the 8.9 features had been frozen and most of the code had already been written.
Oracle has promised a 9.0 version of PeopleSoft Enterprise. I would expect that it will probably come out sometime in the third quarter of 2006. Unlike previous major releases, 9.0 will not include a move to a significantly different version of PeopleTools. When version 8 was released, it required a move to PeopleTools 8. PeopleTools 8 was significantly different than earlier releases. 7.5 applications were not compatible with 8.0 tools and visa versa. This is not the case for PeopleSoft 9.0, which will be released on PeopleTools 8.48. Earlier versions of PeopleSoft applications from 8.4 to 8.9 will be supported on on the 8.48 Tools release. There are no major architectural or systemic changes between 8.9 and 9.0. So, while the version number makes this seem like a major release like version 8, it is really more of a dot release. I expect that the difference between 8.9 and 9.0 will be comparable to the difference between 8.8 and 8.9. I expect that the only reason that they are calling it 9.0 is that it sounds a whole lot better from a marketing perspective than to call it 8.91 or something like that.
Version 9.0 will be the last release of PeopleSoft Enterprise. Once it's in the can, all development efforts will move to Fusion. Oracle has announced that there will be a direct upgrade path to Fusion from 8.8, 8.9, and 9.0 versions of PeopleSoft Enterprise. Organizations on earlier releases will only be able to upgrade to Fusion by first upgrading to one of these releases.
Next time, I'll take a look at the current support polices for PeopleSoft applications and what they mean for companies that are thinking about migrating to Fusion.
posted by The Fusion Guy @ 6:51 AM
2 Comments:
At 11:37 AM,
Anonymous said…
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At 2:40 PM,
Anonymous said…
I recently heard that Oracle is dropping Fusion. The development has been directed to support either Oracle EBS, Seibel or PeopleSoft's Enterprise.
Look's like Kurian has finally realized that what customers want is good integration tools and not yet another suite of products.
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