Background and Context

The organization operates a legacy Oracle Forms & Reports environment currently hosted on Microsoft Windows Server (2003 R2 and 2008). The stack includes:

• Oracle Forms & Reports 10g (Oracle Application Server 10g)
• Oracle Databases 10g and 11gR2
• VMware-based virtualization

The Windows operating systems are end-of-life and represent unacceptable operational and security risk. The organization has decided to:

• Exit the Windows platform entirely
• Upgrade Oracle Forms & Reports to the final supported release (12c)
• Migrate the environment to Linux (RHEL 7.9)
• Modernize the database platform to Oracle 12c or 19c
• Decommission Oracle Application Server 10g

Custom Java Struts web applications previously co-hosted on the Forms server are out of scope for this effort and will not ...