Deprecation plan for ArcGIS 9.3.1 and 9.4

ESRI has released an article on support site describing deprecation plans for both 9.3.1 and 9.4. This is an important document for all GIS managers, IT mangers, CIO and like. For any strategic planning of your GIS please make sure you read this document and inform other decision makers. The document can be downloaded from here.

Here are some of the key points for both releases.

9.3.1

• Last version to support Windows 2000 across the product board
• Last release with Crystal Reports Wizard
• Last release with Survey Editor and Survey Dataset in Survey Analyst extension
• Last version to support Visual Basic 6
• Last release to support CASE tools and Import Schema Wizard
• Last version to support Visual Studio 2005

9.4

• Last version to support VBA
• Separation of Arc/Info Workstation from ArcInfo Desktop
• Last release to support IE 6 (all products)