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    <description>Anyone seriously considering an upgrade to 12i within the next 6-18 months. It would be great to share anything you know about how good (or not) 12i really is and any issues you hit in planning or carrying out the upgrade..</description>
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      <title>See you at Openworld 2008!</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:38:05 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Hope you had an enjoyable experience at Openworld 2007!
Let's keep in touch using Oracle Mix - http://mix.oracle.com
Look forward to meeting our R12 Upgraders group members again at Openworld 2008!
Hope we would have many interesting case studies to share!</description>
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      <ls:MessageDate xmlns:ls="http://leveragesoftware.com">11/15/2007 6:38:05 PM</ls:MessageDate>
      <ls:MessageBody xmlns:ls="http://leveragesoftware.com">Hope you had an enjoyable experience at Openworld 2007!
Let's keep in touch using Oracle Mix - http://mix.oracle.com
Look forward to meeting our R12 Upgraders group members again at Openworld 2008!
Hope we would have many interesting case studies to share!</ls:MessageBody>
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      <title>My Top 10 EBS R12 Upgrade sessions at Openworld07</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 07:25:06 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>I was one of the 800-1000 members of the audience who attend the #1 session - Upgrading to Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12: Best Practices. The session had 2 parts: Part A - Tech stack changes in R12 affecting upgrade and Part B - Case Study of Oracle's Global Single Instance (GSI) upgrade. The...</description>
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      <ls:MessageDate xmlns:ls="http://leveragesoftware.com">11/14/2007 1:25:06 AM</ls:MessageDate>
      <ls:MessageBody xmlns:ls="http://leveragesoftware.com">I was one of the 800-1000 members of the audience who attend the #1 session - Upgrading to Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12: Best Practices. The session had 2 parts: Part A - Tech stack changes in R12 affecting upgrade and Part B - Case Study of Oracle's Global Single Instance (GSI) upgrade. The...</ls:MessageBody>
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      <title>My Top 10 EBS R12 Upgrade sessions at Openworld07</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2007 20:08:09 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Here's the Top 10 sessions on Oracle EBS R12 Upgrade that I'd like to attend: 
[1] Upgrading to Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12: Best Practices 
[2] Case Study: Upgrading Oracle's Global Single Instance to Oracle E-Business Release 12
[3] Oracle E-Business Suite Advanced Procurement: Building...</description>
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      <ls:MessageDate xmlns:ls="http://leveragesoftware.com">11/9/2007 2:08:09 PM</ls:MessageDate>
      <ls:MessageBody xmlns:ls="http://leveragesoftware.com">Here's the Top 10 sessions on Oracle EBS R12 Upgrade that I'd like to attend: 
[1] Upgrading to Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12: Best Practices 
[2] Case Study: Upgrading Oracle's Global Single Instance to Oracle E-Business Release 12
[3] Oracle E-Business Suite Advanced Procurement: Building...</ls:MessageBody>
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      <title>Upgrade Project - From 11.5.9 to ???</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:53:44 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>This is an excellent idea!
May I suggest your team booking a time window on the Openworld Unconference agenda so that dozens of interested folks like me can join the discussions. Alternately, the group can meet at the No Slide Zone too. Again, please book a slot on the NSZ.
All the best for your...</description>
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      <ls:MessageDate xmlns:ls="http://leveragesoftware.com">11/2/2007 12:53:44 PM</ls:MessageDate>
      <ls:MessageBody xmlns:ls="http://leveragesoftware.com">This is an excellent idea!
May I suggest your team booking a time window on the Openworld Unconference agenda so that dozens of interested folks like me can join the discussions. Alternately, the group can meet at the No Slide Zone too. Again, please book a slot on the NSZ.
All the best for your...</ls:MessageBody>
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      <title>Upgrade Project - From 11.5.9 to ???</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:59:40 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>We have embarked on several R12 upgrades and can share with you the reasons our clients decided to undertake the upgrade now and the experience of our project team (i.e. what they are encountering and how they are dealing with the issues etc.)  Please let me know when a good time to meet-and you can...</description>
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      <ls:MessageDate xmlns:ls="http://leveragesoftware.com">11/2/2007 11:59:40 AM</ls:MessageDate>
      <ls:MessageBody xmlns:ls="http://leveragesoftware.com">We have embarked on several R12 upgrades and can share with you the reasons our clients decided to undertake the upgrade now and the experience of our project team (i.e. what they are encountering and how they are dealing with the issues etc.)  Please let me know when a good time to meet-and you can...</ls:MessageBody>
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      <title>Upgrade Project - From 11.5.9 to ???</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:46:27 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Thanks mamelatti. I've registered for the session you suggest.

Are any customers going to be referenceable by the time we get to OOW? If so, I'd love to have a 1:1 with them.</description>
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      <ls:MessageDate xmlns:ls="http://leveragesoftware.com">10/23/2007 7:46:27 AM</ls:MessageDate>
      <ls:MessageBody xmlns:ls="http://leveragesoftware.com">Thanks mamelatti. I've registered for the session you suggest.

Are any customers going to be referenceable by the time we get to OOW? If so, I'd love to have a 1:1 with them.</ls:MessageBody>
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      <title>Upgrade Project - From 11.5.9 to ???</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 19:17:02 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Oracle is closely tracking all activity around customers working on Release 12.  There are currently 15 customers live on Release 12, and you are correct in that most are new implementations.  The are over 120 customers that are actively working on implementing/upgrading to Release 12 that are...</description>
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      <ls:MessageBody xmlns:ls="http://leveragesoftware.com">Oracle is closely tracking all activity around customers working on Release 12.  There are currently 15 customers live on Release 12, and you are correct in that most are new implementations.  The are over 120 customers that are actively working on implementing/upgrading to Release 12 that are...</ls:MessageBody>
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      <title>Upgrade Project - From 11.5.9 to ???</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2007 11:52:31 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>We are currently on 11.5.10 at the moment and on the whole find it very stable - we upgraded from 11.5.7 about 18 months ago.

In meetings with Oracle last week, I've been led to believe that there are about 6 companies on R12 now and there may be as many as 40 by the end of this year. Apparently...</description>
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      <ls:MessageDate xmlns:ls="http://leveragesoftware.com">10/3/2007 6:52:31 AM</ls:MessageDate>
      <ls:MessageBody xmlns:ls="http://leveragesoftware.com">We are currently on 11.5.10 at the moment and on the whole find it very stable - we upgraded from 11.5.7 about 18 months ago.

In meetings with Oracle last week, I've been led to believe that there are about 6 companies on R12 now and there may be as many as 40 by the end of this year. Apparently...</ls:MessageBody>
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      <title>Upgrade Project - From 11.5.9 to ???</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 02:59:54 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Upgrading to R11.5.10.2 or R12 is a complex decision.
Also, depends on when you plan to go-live and features you want to switch on R12.
Yet to hear of a successful R12 upgrade go-live till date.
The ones I know of are going live in Dec-07 and later.
OOW will be a good place to get R12 tips but...</description>
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      <ls:MessageDate xmlns:ls="http://leveragesoftware.com">10/1/2007 9:59:54 PM</ls:MessageDate>
      <ls:MessageBody xmlns:ls="http://leveragesoftware.com">Upgrading to R11.5.10.2 or R12 is a complex decision.
Also, depends on when you plan to go-live and features you want to switch on R12.
Yet to hear of a successful R12 upgrade go-live till date.
The ones I know of are going live in Dec-07 and later.
OOW will be a good place to get R12 tips but...</ls:MessageBody>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:29:51 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Hello Gurus,

We are in process of upgrading to a higher version of EBusiness suite. At present we are on 11.5.9 and wish to know is it advisable to upgrade to 11.5.10 or look at upgrading to 12i directly.

Would like to hear your views and suggestions on the same.

If need be we can meet up...</description>
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      <ls:MessageDate xmlns:ls="http://leveragesoftware.com">9/25/2007 4:29:51 PM</ls:MessageDate>
      <ls:MessageBody xmlns:ls="http://leveragesoftware.com">Hello Gurus,

We are in process of upgrading to a higher version of EBusiness suite. At present we are on 11.5.9 and wish to know is it advisable to upgrade to 11.5.10 or look at upgrading to 12i directly.

Would like to hear your views and suggestions on the same.

If need be we can meet up...</ls:MessageBody>
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