ArchBeat

Oracle ACE Directors Lonneke Dikmans (Approach Alliance) and Mark Simpson (Griffiths Waite) join Oracle Enterprise Architects Mans Bhuller and Pat Shepherd to conclude their discussion of why architecture success is sometimes invisible, and how to put it in the spotlight.

Honglin Su shares links to resources for the newly released Oracle VM template for Oracle PeopleSoft HCM 9.1 and PeopleTools 8.50.02.

"Do you TRUST your spouse? Yes, of course! This same level of TRUST must exist for your Cloud provider; otherwise you could be doomed for an early divorce. " Oracle ACE Jordan Braunstein

"According to Gartner, we're climbing away from the 'Trough of Disillusionment', meaning SOA is rapidly becoming more mature and mainstream. I agree. Already we see SOA being used with EDA and CEP, which is a good thing too. A logical next step would be Cloud Computing. I see Cloud Computing as the logical next step for 'location transparancy'. It's a combination of location transparancy and SaaS, I guess. There will come a time when a consumer of a service doesn't care where the service is hosted. He will care about who will host it. Companies will look for best-of-breed service producers." -- Oracle ACE Director Mike van Alst