Oracle Exastack Ready Eligibility Criteria for Independent Software Vendors (ISVs)

• Complete the Oracle Exastack Ready online application
• Join an applicable OPN Knowledge Zones (Oracle Solaris,Oracle Linux, Oracle Server Virtualization, Oracle Database 11g, Oracle WebLogic Server, Oracle Exadata Database Machine, Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, Oracle SPARC SuperCluster).
• Recommended: Provide seamless support to your customers by completing the MVSP Support Training Guided Learning Path (GLP) and OCVS (Oracle Collaborative Vendor Support Program) membership. Oracle Exastack partners are responsible for providing ongoing technical support services to end-users

• Develop and publish an Oracle Exastack Ready Datasheet. Oracle Exastack Ready Datasheet Template
• Maintain current profiles for both your company and software application on the OPN Solutions Catalog. .
• Provide an active URL to a web page that identifies the name of your application and the major release number (version X.x) that supports the latest major release (PDF) or version of the applicable Oracle Exastack Ready software program. Example: Partner Application XYZ version 2.0, supports Oracle Database 11g R2.
• Provide an active URL to a web page that describes your application and verifies that your application is available to commercial customers. "Application" is defined as an application software product that supports one or more Oracle Exastack Ready products. For Oracle Exastack Ready benefits, including upgrade to Platinum level, your application product will be recognized at the application suite or product family level, and not at the individual application or module level
• Post a solution brief within 30 days of acceptance into the program to your product website and OPN Solutions Catalog profile that outlines the benefits of their application running on the corresponding Oracle Exastack Ready software program.
• You must agree to update your application to work with the applicable Oracle Exastack Ready software program within 12 months of your product's next major release, and within 12 months of Oracle's release of a new major release or version of the applicable Oracle Exastack Ready software program.

To achieve Oracle Exadata Ready status and access related benefits, the following additional criteria must be met:

• You must achieve Oracle Database Ready status per the criteria outlined above.
• You must achieve either Oracle Solaris Ready or Oracle Linux Ready status per the criteria outlined above.

To achieve Oracle Exalogic Ready status and access related benefits, the following additional criteria must be met:

• You must achieve Oracle WebLogic Ready status per the criteria outlined above. 
• You must confirm your application supports Oracle WebLogic Server 11g Release 1 P/S3 (10.3.4)
• You must achieve either Oracle Solaris Ready or Oracle Linux Ready status per the criteria outlined above.
• You must provide one reference from a customer or verify that your application is supported and has been successfully installed with Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Machine at your facility, a customer site, an Oracle facility or at an Oracle approved test facility.

To achieve Oracle SPARC SuperCluster Ready status and access related benefits, the following additional criteria must be met:

• You must achieve Oracle Database Ready and Oracle Solaris Ready status per the criteria outlined above.
• You must provide one reference from a customer or verify that your application is supported and has been successfully installed with Oracle SPARC SuperCluster at your facility, a customer site, an Oracle facility or at an Oracle approved test facility.

* If you are a hardware vendor looking for more information, please refer to Oracle Exastack Ready for Hardware Vendors.
In addition to the excluded product types above, qualifying software applications must connect/integrate to Oracle Database using a published Oracle API or SDK documented on oracle.com.

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