Dear Silicon Investor Members & Guests-

     On Thursday, June 29th at 10:30 PM EST, Silicon
Investor rolled out the final phase of a database
upgrade designed to greatly increase the performance,
scalability and reliability of the Silicon Investor
site. This has been a major project and has been
underway for some time.

     There have been site performance issues
associated with this rollout, and we appreciate your
patience throughout the upgrade process. The SI team
views any interruption in full service as unacceptable
and is dedicated to ensuring that SI provides the
level of performance and reliability that you expect
and deserve.  While the database upgrade is now
complete, we will continue to monitor the site very
closely to help ensure that our upgraded system
continues to improve the performance of the site. We
are confident that you will see an improvement in the
performance and reliability of the site due to the
database upgrade.

     We will also be taking steps to ensure that
performance issues similar to those associated with
the database rollout do not occur again during any
future upgrades.

     We appreciate the helpful input received from the
community during the upgrade process, particularly in
identifying and addressing specific areas of concern.
Thanks again for your continued support of Silicon
Investor and please feel free to contact us with your
comments, 

John Busby
Product Manager
Silicon Investor