I hope the DBA does not make the decisions: Product Obsolescence / Desupport Information: Oracle Corporation announces the end of Error Correction Support for Oracle Database version(s) 8.1.7 (8i) & 8.1.7.x (8i) on the following platform(s): Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows 2000, Linux x86, HP-UX PA-RISC, IBM OS/390 (z/OS) version(s) ALL - OSDI, excluding MPM, Microsoft Windows 98, HP Tru64 UNIX, HP Alpha OpenVMS, Solaris Operating System (x86), IBM AIX-Based Systems version(s) 5L, Fujitsu-Siemens BS2000/OSD, Solaris Operating System (SPARC), Microsoft Windows NT for Intel, effective 31-DEC-2004. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4034527#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...