[Mar. 17, 2011: Added more details about transition] I started this blog in 2006 as a personal experiment.  Since then, this blog has morphed into a combination of a breaking news source and a wide-ranging reference library.  Over the years, I’ve deliberately established an editorial policy of ensuring that we break EBS techstack news to you in real-time, free of hype and unvarnished by marketing considerations. It now includes contributions from almost thirty guest authors.  We’ve collectively published about 800 articles, fielded over 5,200 comments, and handled countless emails from readers.  We get millions of pageviews per year, and there are over a million incoming links to our published articles.  This blog’s success has been an object lesson in how a small, personal experiment can take on a life of its own.  Over the coming weeks, there are some changes underway that will impact this blog.  These changes are technical in nature as we are streamlining and migrating our blogging platforms.  While in transition, the links to content and comments will be frozen and unavailable.   I fully understand the importance of this site to you, and I am working to investigate options for preserving both our ability to get breaking news to you as well as preserving the reference library functions that you’ve come to rely upon. For now, this blog is on hiatus.  We won’t be publishing new articles or announcements. Comments have been frozen.  This is temporary, but I don’t have a date yet when we’ll get back into our normal swing of things. If you have certification questions that can’t be answered via the existing articles posted here (e.g. “Is <product> certified with <product> on <platform>”), I’d recommend either logging a formal Service Request with Oracle Support or checking the latest Certifications database on My Oracle Support. Stay tuned.  I’ll post more updates here as soon as possible. Regards, Steven Chan Chief Editor