Future of BEx Query and BEx Query Designer

Folks, I understand SAP's future reporting tools is BO suite. All of us need to move to the new tools which are better or more reliable in 2010. Meanwhile our customers are reluctant to use BEx tools for any new development. Being on the techi side I dont see how BEx Query will be replaced by Voyager or Polestar or WebI or Crystal. I just need to report on my multiprovider without a universe layer. Have any of you experts come across documentation that layed out future of BEx tools explaining the end of support period? I have see roadmaps for tool availability but no dates for end of support.
Thanks in advance.

AFAIK,
Bex Query designer and BEx query will continue... Polestar might be proposed as an alternative for BEx but then it is meant for ad-hoc analysis ... but BEx query and Query designer have specific query requirements also...
Voyager etc will start coming in...

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If you're passing a list as a param, you need to tell <cfqueryparam> it's a list. Read:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/Tags_p-q_18.html#1102474
ERROR is: one record should return. I get 0.
It's a bit hard to comment on this sort of thing without knowing the data involved.
A tutorial I found gave an example using only one column for this part of the fix: tot_AllCurrentDraftListing = QueryNew("AnnounceNum", "CF_SQL_VARCHAR")
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http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/functions_m-r_19.html#292759
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