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. “That version of Fusion Middleware has been around for quite a while now, and the announcement of Extended Support being only a year is quite unusual — normally it's two to three years. In part, that's because they kept the Premier Support going for so long, and then telling everyone it's going to be managed, ‘Market Driven Support’ after Extended Support is not what the market was expecting,” Biggs said. In its note, Oracle said that “to help reduce the time sensitivity of these upgrade programs”, it planned to offer a Market Driven Support program for Oracle Fusion Middleware 12.2.1.4/12.2.1.19 on a yearly basis beyond 2027. “Details of this program, including scope, terms, and availability, will be communicated at a later date,” the vendor said. Biggs described Market Driven Support — a fee-based service which offers a lower level of support than Premier or Extended Support — as an “extraordinarily limited product” which does not provide full patching. “The situation right now is you've got so many security vulnerabilities being announced all the time, who knows what Market-Driven Support is going to include? They're basically saying, when it comes to January 2028, it's unclear what they’re going to do. By the way, Market Driven Support is far more expensive for a far weaker support product. That's the big surprise to the marketplace,” Biggs said. The Register has offered Oracle the opportunity to comment. The good news is that Oracle is broadening platform support by confirming future versions of Oracle WebLogic Server and Oracle Fusion Middleware will be available on IBM's AIX Unix operating system for its mid-range POWER processor architecture. The move would offer “a more deliberate approach to modernization, allowing upgrades to be aligned with infrastructure lifecycle planning, application dependencies and business-driven transformation timelines,” IBM said in a statement. Oracle has also promised more details — at some point in the future — about its plans for Fusion Middleware. It plans to deliver the next Oracle Fusion Middleware suite release on a Jakarta EE 11-based container [for Java-based applications]. "This release is intended to extend support for the next generation of Java and WebLogic Server capabilities across the broader Fusion Middleware portfolio,” it said. ®

De A27 in de richting Gorinchem is dicht na een ernstig ongeluk. Ter hoogte van Lexmond ligt een camper op z'n kant en staat een vrachtwagen stil op de vluchtstrook.

• Club triggered £34.5m release clause for Osasuna forward

• Head coach keen on player’s versatility and pace

The Osasuna winger Víctor Muñoz will become the first signing of Andoni Iraola’s reign at Liverpool after the club triggered a £34.5m release clause, beating Newcastle to his signature. Muñoz will sign a six-year contract after undergoing a medical on Wednesday in Atlanta, where he is part of the Spain squad at the World Cup.

Liverpool have been following Muñoz’s progress for an extensive period and sped up the deal after Iraola’s appointment because the head coach was eager to add his compatriot. Iraola spent most of his playing career at Athletic Bilbao, continues to closely monitor La Liga and Muñoz has impressed him.

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Exclusive: Muslim Council of Britain national guidance also urges mosques to strengthen police ties and improve CCTV

Mosques are being advised to carry out lockdown drills, strengthen ties with local police and improve CCTV coverage under new national guidance published amid growing concerns about anti-Muslim attacks.

The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) has released new security and preparedness framework for mosques, trustees and volunteers, warning that places of worship and community centres face an increasing threat from vandalism, intimidation, threats and targeted hostility.

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Musician Michael Cloud Duguay’s new album was born from a mission to capture the sound of the majestic yet increasingly rare instruments

Michael Cloud Duguay and his band of collaborators were nearing the end of their pipe organ tour of Newfoundland when they encountered a hitch in Aguathuna, a town of about 400 people on a craggy peninsula that juts out from the Canadian island’s south-western edge. For the past week, they’d been showing up at old churches in remote communities like this one, preparing their solar-powered mobile studio, and recording instruments both humble and monumental, whose complex systems of keys, stops, hand cranks, foot pedals, bellows and reeds were designed to vibrate the air around them until it approximates the sound of God.

This was all in service of music that was still taking shape in Duguay’s mind. It would eventually form the basis of the Ontario composer’s new album, Kingdom Come, Kingdom Go, a collection of quietly elegiac pieces that doubles as a sort of audio documentary about Newfoundland’s organs and the congregations to which they belong. The music is collaged from recordings that Duguay made on that trip in July 2024, of the organs (which the team documented and will be available as Midi instruments later this summer) but also of church leaders and ordinary congregants talking about their lives, as well as saxophones, flutes and whatever other sounds happened to go by while the tape was rolling. Listening in headphones on a spring day can be mildly hallucinatory: are the bird calls, the rustling wind and the chattering people part of the music or the world outside?

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鹿児島県霧島市、ホテル京セラでアンブレラスカイ / Umbrella Sky at Hotel Kyocera in Kirishima City, Kagoshima Prefecture

Toen de Poolse dichter Wyslawa Szymborska in 1996 de Nobelprijs voor Literatuur kreeg, schijnt ze te hebben gezegd dat niet zij die prijs had moeten krijgen, maar haar geliefde…

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Het hart van de Russische industrie is keihard getroffen door een ongekende Oekraïense aanval. Het 'best beschermde luchtruim van Rusland' werd geïnfiltreerd door honderden drones waarbij de olieraffinaderij van Moskou, eigendom van de FIFA-troetelkindjes van Gazprom en gelegen binnen (!) de vierde Moskouse buitenring MKAD, het doelwit was. Op beelden zijn grote branden en enorme rookpluimen te zien bij de olieraffinaderij. Andere beelden tonen Moskovieten die de aanval aanschouwen: sommigen in verbaasd, anderen lacherig, anderen hysterisch - de raffinaderij ligt slechts een kilometer of vijftien van het Kremlin. Oekraïne ziet deze aanval mogelijk als vergelding op de brand in het Holenklooster en op Twitter kraaide Zelensky zojuist victorie: "This is a fully justified response to Russian attacks on our cities and communities, and another important result of our warriors’ work against facilities that sustain Russia’s war machine." Maar ja, we weten allemaal wat de reactie van Poetin zal zijn. Nog meer destructie, nog meer ellende.

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Let op die klep die mee de lucht in gaat

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Luchtafweer zorgt er ook voor dat drone op winkelcentrum ploft

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Ja dit krijg je er nou van he domme MUTS

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