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Version numbering
Oracle products have historically followed their own release-numbering and naming conventions. With the Oracle RDBMS 10g release, Oracle Corporation started standardizing all current versions of its major products using the "10g" label, although some sources continued to refer to Oracle Applications Release 11i as Oracle 11i. Major database-related products and some of their versions include:
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Oracle Application Server 10g (also known as "Oracle AS 10g"): a middleware product;
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Oracle Applications Release 11i (aka Oracle e-Business Suite, Oracle Financials or Oracle 11i): a suite of business applications;
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Oracle Developer Suite 10g (9.0.4);
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Oracle JDeveloper 10g: a Java integrated development environment;
Since version 7, Oracle's RDBMS release numbering has used the following codes:
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Oracle7: 7.0.16 — 7.3.4
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Oracle8 Database: 8.0.3 — 8.0.6
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Oracle8i Database Release 1: 8.1.5.0 — 8.1.5.1
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Oracle8i Database Release 2: 8.1.6.0 — 8.1.6.3
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Oracle8i Database Release 3: 8.1.7.0 — 8.1.7.4
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Oracle9i Database Release 1: 9.0.1.0 — 9.0.1.5 (Latest current patchset as of December 2003)
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Oracle9i Database Release 2: 9.2.0.1 — 9.2.0.8 (Latest current patchset as of April 2007)
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Oracle Database 10g Release 1: 10.1.0.2 — 10.1.0.5 (Latest current patchset as of February 2006)
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Oracle Database 10g Release 2: 10.2.0.1 — 10.2.0.3 (Latest current patchset as of November 2006)
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Oracle Database 11g Release 1: 11.1.0.6 — no patchset available as of October 2007)
From 2006 Oracle Corporation started to discuss the proposed next major version of its database, which it provisionally termed "Oracle database 11g beta". The "launch" of Oracle 11g took place on 2007-07-11.
The version numbering syntax within each release follows the pattern: major.maintenance.application-server.component-specific.platform-specific.
For example, "10.2.0.1 for 64-bit Solaris" means: 10th major version of Oracle, maintenance level 2, Oracle Application Server (OracleAS) 0, level 1 for Solaris 64-bit.
The Oracle Administrator's Guide offers further information on Oracle release numbers. Oracle Corporation provides a table showing the latest patchset release by major release, operating system, and hardware architecture.
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