In addition to the integrated release of OWB in the 11.2.0.3 Oracle database distribution, the following 64-bit standalone clients are now available for download from Oracle Support.

• OWB 11.2.0.3 Standalone client for Windows 64-bit - 13365470
• OWB 11.2.0.3 Standalone client for Linux X86 64-bit - 13366327

This is in addition to the previously released 32-bit client on Windows.

• OWB 11.2.0.3 Standalone client for Windows 32-bit - 13365457

The support document Major OWB 11.2.0.3 New Features Summary has details for OWB 11.2.0.3 which include the following.

Exadata v2 and oracle Database 11gR2 support capabilities;

• Support for Oracle Database 11gR2 and Exadata compression types
• Even more partitioning: Range-Range, Composite Hash/List, System, Reference
• Transparent Data Encryption support
• Data Guard support/certification
• Compiled PL/SQL code generation

Capabilities to support data warehouse ETL best practices;

• Read and write Oracle Data Pump files with external tables
• External table preprocessor
• Partition specific DML
• Bulk data movement code templates: Oracle, IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server to Oracle

Integration with Fusion Middleware capabilities;

• Support OWB's Control Center Agent on WLS

Lots of interesting capabilities in 11.2.0.3 and the availability of the 64-bit client I'm sure is welcome news for many!