As the status of an on-premises version of Oracle Database 23ai remains in limbo, the company has tossed a bone to its on-prem Oracle Database 19c customers in the form of an extension of Premier Support to Dec. 31, 2029, and Extended Support to Dec. 31, 2032.
This stretches Extended Support from its previous 2024-2027 timeline, announced in 2022, increasing the product’s lifespan by another five years. This emulates companies such as SAP, which is granting reprieves to its on-prem S/4HANA customers.
However, as with SAP, there are some gotchas. During the period from May 1, 2027, through Dec. 31, 2032, Oracle will exclude support for BSAFE crypto libraries, Java, or any Java-related products, Transport Layer Security (TLS), Native Network Encryption, Transparent Data Encryption, DBMS_CRYPTO programmatic encryption, both C and Java utilities, and FIPS compliance.
