Ian Simmons
Member
Hello All - I have seen various threads on the question of Blue vs. Red for EnterpriseOne implementations, but I would like to get an honest and objective opinion from anyone kind enough to contribute.
We have been on a very old release of JDE (OneWorld Xe, SP23) for many years, in a Citrix (non-Web) environment. We are planning an upgrade to EnterpriseOne 9.? in about a year's time. We have been running on AS/400 / iSeries / IBM i successfully all that time and it has never let us down. We have never employed a DBA as it looks after itself, we just conduct purges from time to time; and we transact high volumes of data.
Various third parties are telling us that Oracle are not 'selling' Blue Stack any more and therefore any E1 components that rely on it must be supported by IBM and not Oracle. This seems to be leading people away from DB2 for i and onto Oracle, at least anecdotally. I can fully understand why Oracle would want to market JDE that way.
So my questions are these: is it inevitable that anyone staying with JDE and Oracle will inevitably have to follow Red Stack away from Blue, buy their DB and servers? Will we therefore have to re-write every interface if we go down this route? Have you been faced with this decision to migrate away to Red Stack, and what did you decide in the end? Are Oracle really positioning themselves so that it will become difficult for IBM customers?
Any advice you can give may be very helpful. Our parent company in the US is 100% IBM but they are still on World; we are not; though my preference would be to stay with IBM.
Thanks
Ian
We have been on a very old release of JDE (OneWorld Xe, SP23) for many years, in a Citrix (non-Web) environment. We are planning an upgrade to EnterpriseOne 9.? in about a year's time. We have been running on AS/400 / iSeries / IBM i successfully all that time and it has never let us down. We have never employed a DBA as it looks after itself, we just conduct purges from time to time; and we transact high volumes of data.
Various third parties are telling us that Oracle are not 'selling' Blue Stack any more and therefore any E1 components that rely on it must be supported by IBM and not Oracle. This seems to be leading people away from DB2 for i and onto Oracle, at least anecdotally. I can fully understand why Oracle would want to market JDE that way.
So my questions are these: is it inevitable that anyone staying with JDE and Oracle will inevitably have to follow Red Stack away from Blue, buy their DB and servers? Will we therefore have to re-write every interface if we go down this route? Have you been faced with this decision to migrate away to Red Stack, and what did you decide in the end? Are Oracle really positioning themselves so that it will become difficult for IBM customers?
Any advice you can give may be very helpful. Our parent company in the US is 100% IBM but they are still on World; we are not; though my preference would be to stay with IBM.
Thanks
Ian