title: Oracle 11g Backward compatibility with older oracle releases
body: <p>Our organization is planning to upgrade its most of the oracle servers &amp; clients to 11g Release 2.</p>
  
  <p>But one of our client system is still  using oracle 8i installation.</p>
  
  <p>Can we able to access the objects of Oracle 8i from oracle 11g client?</p>
  
  <p>Some blogs says that it should work and other say it won't.</p>
  
  <p>Can anybody faced any issue with such configuration.</p>
  
  <p>One of the senior dba told us that oracle only supports backward compatibility of 2 versions earlier to current version. Assuming this fact we shouldn't been able to access database objects running on oracle version 8.</p>
  
  <p>Kindly help.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance.</p>