<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" color="#291efe">Hi,</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" color="#291efe">As you will recall from earlier messages (eg, see note below), MIT has agreed to host the OpenCORAL forum and the web content.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" color="#291efe"> We have been working with John to make the transition, & it is now complete.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" color="#291efe">OpenCORAL.org has been moved to OpenCORAL.mit.edu (at this point, the old Website will re-direct you to the new one).</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" color="#291efe">We look forward to energetic participation by all CORAL users.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" color="#291efe"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" color="#291efe">Thanks,</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" color="#291efe"> Vicky</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" color="#291efe"> </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" color="#291efe"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" color="#291efe">***********************</font></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" color="#291efe">12/04/11</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" color="#291efe">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" color="#291efe"><o:p> </o:p>Recently Stanford informed us that OpenCoral.org will remain an active site for the discussion, development, and distribution of OpenCoral. However, Stanford will not be able to continue to host the website, since they do not plan to run Coral after they transition to Badger (the new commercial version of CORAL).</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" color="#291efe"><o:p> </o:p>Since MIT will continue to use and maintain CORAL, we agreed to host the forum and the web content.<span> </span>In contrast to Stanford, however, we don't have the resources necessary to provide the extensive help that John Shott has offered in the past.<span> </span>We will rely on the expertise of all CORAL users to help each other.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" color="#291efe">After the transition to MIT, we do not expect to do as much development and functionality additions as Bill Murray had been able to do, but we will keep CORAL current, i.e. compatible with modern operating systems and databases. Our intent is to continue the collaboration between the user-institutions in assisting each other with maintenance of the systems we are already using.<o:p></o:p></font></p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" color="#291efe">With John Shott’s help we are presently working to make a smooth transition of OpenCoral.org hosting from Stanford to MIT. Please let us know if you have any questions and/or if you would like to assist with the transition and future CORAL maintenance</font></div></body></html>