Microsoft deprecates its ADO.NET Oracle provider (System.Data.OracleProvider)

June 16, 2009

I found out today that Microsoft has decided to deprecate its provider for Oracle.

In a related note, I got quoted in Jeffery Schwartz’s news article in Visual Studio Magazine about this new development.

-Ben

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