7.1 Platform Support Policy

The Oracle policy of operating system platform support for Oracle Tuxedo and related products is as follows:

• x86 or x86-64 denotes various CPUs based on x86 or x86-64 architecture.
• The virtualization software environments provided by Oracle including OVM, OVM for SPARC (aka LDOMS) and VirtualBox are supported.

  Oracle Tuxedo is also considered supported in virtualization software environments provided by the operating system vendor (such as AIX6 WPARs). Even though Oracle has performed limited testing in these environments, the support is based on the OS vendor compatibility statement that software applications will run in a virtualization software environment without any changes.

  Other virtualization software environments such as VMware, are also considered supported, provided that the virtualization software environment is supported by the operating system vendor and the support criteria specified in the operating system data sheets are met.

  For more information, see Supported Platform Data Sheets.

• The Oracle policy is that when the operating system provider discontinues supporting a specific release, Oracle support is also discontinued.
• Oracle will not be able to notify customers and users when support for a specific operating system release is discontinued. As a user of the operating system release, we expect you to find out from the operating system provider of discontinued support and plan accordingly.
• All minor releases higher than the certified OS version are supported with the assumption that OS vendor maintains binary compatibility. For example, if Tuxedo 12.2.2 is certified on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x (x>2) are supported with the assumption that Red Hat will maintain binary compatibility among all minor versions of release 6.
• Oracle Tuxedo supports both Standard and Enterprise editions for a Windows server if a certification has been done on one of the platforms. It's based on the assumption that Microsoft maintains binary compatibility between the editions.
• An operating system platform, which is binary-compatible with an Oracle Tuxedo-supported platform, is also considered an Oracle Tuxedo-supported platform. AlmaLinux 8 is binary-compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, which is an Oracle Tuxedo-supported platform. So, AlmaLinux 8 too is considered an Oracle Tuxedo-supported platform.