Yes, I’m afraid it is. I’ll be posting something on the blog to this effect later this evening, basically we’ve decided to wait for the 11g release of OBIEE, which means we’re now looking towards a release date for the book of around a year from now. I’ll post more on this shortly.

regards, Mark

so May 2008 as Amazon reports it now is unrealistic at this point, right?

Regards,
Leonid

Unfortunately, the book is on hiatus at the moment – we’re waiting for the 11g release of OBIEE to come out now (or at least go into beta), as otherwise the book would have come out, based on 10g, at just around the time that the 11g version hit the streets, which wouldn’t have made sense commercially. We’re hoping to resume writing early in 2008, once Oracle make OBIEE 11g available on a beta program, perhaps with a publication date in late 2008 or early 2009.

Thanks for asking though,

regards, Mark

John

Russ

My book will focus on the entire BI Suite stack, not just Discoverer. It’ll take you through the whole process of building a data mart using OWB (2-3 chapters), doing operational reporting using Disco + XML Publisher, then go on to the new BI Suite Enterprise Edition. It’ll contain a chapter on SOA integration, identity management and so on, it’s a more “holistic” BI Suite book rather than a specialist manual on Discoverer, which is what Michael’s book is about. The two books will be complementary, I hope.

regards

Mark