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APOSS Reminders

APOSS Flex Field

Mandatory Field that is required to correctly capture: y y
Get Certified Support program population Win Backs First Year Point of Sale Attach VSOE pricing requirements

While the Complex Quoting team will review the field during quote request activity it is the responsibility of the Systems Support Sales rep to ensure data accu acy o t e co t acts accuracy of their contracts Rejectionable item by Order Administration

Approved Use Scenarios*

APOSS = Y
A th d contact for items that qualify for the G t Certified S Authored t t f it th t lif f th Get C tifi d Support program t Authored contract for items that were never covered under a support on contract Authored contract for items that were covered under a support contract in IBIS but the contract was excluded from the data migration (and items are not eligible f GCS) and a new contract h b li ibl for d t t has been authored i GSI th d in

APOSS = N
Contracts automatically created as a result of the Sun 10.7 to GSI Bridge for y g Support sold at Point of System Sale in WebDesk Authored contract for support that was quoted and sold at Point of System Sale in WebDesk but was not auto created in the Sun 10.7 to GSI Bridge

APOSS = [ ]
All renewal contracts All SUN- contracts

*Scenarios that are not listed are NOT approved and negatively impact reporting accuracy

Location in OKS

Useful Links
Desk Manual
Authoring Contract Creating an Entered Contract APOSS Flex Field

Forum
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Solaris Subscriptions and Premier Support for OS Reminders

Solaris Subscriptions
Non Oracle Non-Oracle Hardware

Oracle Solaris is available for deployments on hardware not manufactured by or for Sun/Oracle provided that the hardware is certified and listed on the Hardware Certification Listing (HCL) at http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl. Licenses are available on an annual subscription basis Oracle Solaris Premier Subscription for Non-Oracle Hardware The subscription includes the right to use the Oracle Solaris operating system and receive technical support services for a year (up to 3 years may be purchased at one time). A price list has been created for this offering and it is posted on eSource. S Customers can purchase via Oracle Store or their Systems Sales Rep.

Premier Support for OS

Non Oracle Non-Oracle Hardware

Premier Support for OS should be sold to customers who acquired production entitlement from an OEM upon purchase of the non-Oracle hardware.

Premier Support for OS

Non Oracle Non-Oracle Hardware
Service Parts:
B58123 O l P Oracle Premier S i Support f Operating Systems t for O ti S t B58187 Oracle Premier Support for Operating Systems OEM B58184 Oracle Premier Support for Operating Systems Service Partner B58181 Oracle Premier Support for Operating Systems Renewal Partner

Part:
B59857 Non-Oracle HW for Premier Support for OS (Marketing Part) B59858 Non-Oracle HW for Premier Support for OS (Manufacturing Part) y p pp parts if the attach item is Only attach these parts to Premier Support for OS service p non-Oracle HW that contains an embedded Solaris production entitlement

Pricing: ASP based on the number of sockets Solaris support on non Oracle HW gets Get Certified Support (formerly non-Oracle Return to Support) pricing, with no date dependency

Premier Support for OS

Non Oracle Non-Oracle Hardware

Any previous dummy asset attach items for nony y Oracle hardware were migrated to the generic MVS item
This included the X86-ISOL% parts and a handful of SOLARIS-% parts used to book Solaris Everywhere at Sun A clean up effort has been proposed to move these items to the new generic parts If you need to quote an existing renewal, please log an eXpress SR to the Installed Base team to have the part updated to the new MKT and MFG parts

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Updates

Renewal Grace Period Approval

A global blanket renewal g g grace period is in effect for Sun contracts through the end of Q2 Contracts that require a 60 365 day renewal grace period do not require additional approvals

Oracle Sales WIKI

The Oracle Sales WIKI has now been migrated to the Oracle TWIKI environment. environment You can access the same data from now onwards by clicking on the ? icon from the Value Based Selling Portal. Direct link: http://globaldc.oracle.com/perl/twiki/view/ValueBasedSelling/UserSelfHelp