From: "Robert Fazio" Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle References: <9h844c01lic@enews4.newsguy.com> Subject: Re: 8.1.6 support Lines: 21 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Message-ID: Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 14:15:59 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.8.218.197 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc2.pa.home.com 994515359 24.8.218.197 (Sat, 07 Jul 2001 07:15:59 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 07:15:59 PDT Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster They will support for a while, but error correction ends in the next few months. I believe that it's October, but you can look it up on Metalink. "Michael Finney" wrote in message news:9h844c01lic@enews4.newsguy.com... > I have a couple of questions re Oracle product/feature support timelines.... > > Can someone tell me when Oracle will cease to support 8.1.6? > > Also, does anyone know if/when Oracle will cease to support longs as a data > type? I had heard that longs are no longer support in 9i. > > Thanks > > Mike Finney > >