Hello fellow community members! I bring this announcement to you with trepidation, angst, and sadness. After all of these years, the BOB community will be retired in 2020.
The activity level here has dropped substantially over the past few years. Part of this is likely due to the influx of new competitors to Business Objects such as Tableau and Power BI. Part of this is likely the fact that BOB is based on software that is well over a decade old, and is not exactly mobile friendly. There are any number of reasons, but in the end it’s not the “why” that matters, it’s simply the fact that we’ve had a good run and it seems like an appropriate step at this time.
The site will remain open for posting for the next several months. At the end of March, 2020, the site will become closed to new registrations and posts. Essentially it will become a read-only resource which we will keep online until August, 2020. It seems fitting that since we launched the community in August all these years ago (in 2002! ) that we end it at the same time.
We should all be proud of what we built and maintained over the years. That includes the die-hard posters from the BUSOB-L mailing list, the initial forum testers, your much over-worked moderator team (darn spammers ), and every single person who took time out of their day to help someone with a question. BOB would not have become what it is (or was) without any of you.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank all of you, for everything.
So sad, I’ve used this site on and off for 15 years. It was a great resource. I still use it actively and think it would be useful going forward, especially with 4.3 coming out. Thanks to everyone for contributing.
Remembering the time when I was posting Excel documents with some VBA inside to help BI admins… Funny time !
I am thinking it is sad to let this resource going offline even if there is less active threads. I am still going on BOB when googling for some specific BOBJ issue !
If you don’t want to maintain BOB, is there is option to let someone else keep this forum running ? I am OK to invest time and money to keep it online, let me know if we can do something.
Let’s see this as good news. In 2020 BOBJ will celebrate its 30 years!
Yep, old friends since this was a REAL community. I remembered those days where the first thing I was doing in the morning was going to BOB …
Yep old friends guess what I met Chris Sieverts few weeks ago since he is also living in Boston now …
I will be sorry to see BOB go. I have learned a lot, posted a little. I know an MS-Access forum that has a lot of advertising unless you pay a bit (three levels of support for the web site).
I’ve been out of BI since 2011 and I still check in from time to time to see if there is a new thing or an old question I can still answer.
That will be a hard habit to break.
Heck, I’m not even in IT any more. I restore houses now.
) that we end it at the same time.
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That was a fun thread, even if no one could resist the temptation.
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