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Oracle ACE Ronald van Luttikhuizen shares links to "Approach to Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g" and "Portals: The Way to Realize User Experience in a Service-Oriented Architecture? (IOUG/ODTUG)," presentations he and colleague Lonneke Dikmans offered at #OOW09.

"Since architects, software engineers, and the like, are seen as techies (at least from a business perspective) Jaap Schekkerman argues that there is a gap between how these two populations actually use there brain. This is considered at least one of the reasons why IT projects fail." -- Peter Paul van de Beek

"Setting up a cluster has a lot of steps and a few gotchas that can come back to bite you. Just got off the phone with a customer who was having problems with a cluster install, nothing too serious but irritating and slowing him down. Unless the HA & EDG are followed very carefully it is easy to make mistakes." -- Antony Reynolds

"Unfortunately, you cannot demonstrate the value of Enterprise Architecture if you cannot monetize or enumerate the value of all possible choices relative to the choices that are being recommended or those that have been made. Moreover, it's critical that these analyses are carried out over enough time that short-term wins don't supersede long-term potential gains. Thus, it is here that Enterprise Architects, especially those we call Chief Architects, truly show their mettle. It is their experience, coupled with the ability to focus on the right set of variables, understanding the impact of change of those variables and being able to communicate that in a way that allows the business to make effective business decisions, which sets top notch practioners apart from Sr. Software Engineers that the organization placated with a title to keep them happy so they wouldn't leave." -- J. P. Morgenthal

"I value methods that are reuseable and technology independent (increases the chance of reuse). I also value easy access of data with the power of a good generic query language like SQL provides." -- Andrej Koelewijn