Re: Support Timeframes for ADO


"Chris Courtright" <ChrisCourtright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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I am posting this on behalf of one of my developers. My attempts at
searching
for the information have not given me an answer so I would appreciate any
assistance this group could provide me.

Here is the question:

I would like to know when Microsoft intends to stop mainstream and
extended
support of ADO 2.x (the ODBC version, not the ADO.NET) along with when
ADO
2.0 will be taken off the market entirely.


You meant to say "the OLE DB version, not the ADO.NET". ODBC has nothing to
do with ADO.

I couldn't find a specific site either. (But someone here will, they are a
bright lot.)

But I suggest you can take 2012 as a good number and by the way things are
going probably a bit longer. So, unless you have to have something chiselled
in stone for a pointy-haired creature, I wouldn't worry about it too much.

Because, due to their popularity MS has been extending the Extended Support
for just about every product (for lack of a better term...) of the Windows
2000 Era. Win2k extended support was to end 2007, it has been extended to
2012. Office 2k was to die 2006 it has been extended to 2010. SQL Server
2000 extended to 2012. They all have developer environments and mutliple 3rd
party apps which depend exclusively on OLE DB.

In all these cases MS waited until the last minute to announce the
extensions.

Also, IMHO, and only half joking, you can take that "extended support" with
a grain of salt. For example, MS will still take your money for "extended
support" for VB6, but you don't exactly get good service. You'll do better
in a newsgroup. <g>

-ralph




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