Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

Call for Nominations: Oracle Eco-Enterprise Innovation AwardsIs your organization using Oracle products to reduce your environmental footprint while reducing costs? If so, submit your nomination for Oracle's Eco-Enterprise Innovation award. These awards will be presented to select customers and their partners who are using any of Oracle's products to not only take an environmental lead, but also to reduce their costs and improve their business efficiencies by using green...

The latest Oracle Technology Network ArchBeat Podcast features a four-part series recorded live during the panel discussion at OTN Architect Day in Tornonto, April 21, 2011. More than 100 people attended the event, and the audience tossed a lot of great questions at a terrific panel. Listen for yourself... Listen to Part 1 Panel introduction and a discussion of the typical characteristics of Cloud early-adopters. Listen to Part 2The panelists respond to an audience question...

Northern Ohion Oracle Applications User Group 2011 General Session When: Tuesday June 21, 2011 - 3:30pm - 6:30pm Where: Oracle Corporation, 4 Summit Park Drive, Suite 350, Independence, Ohio 44131 Speakers: Maureen Bagley (Enterprise Solution Architect, Eaton Corporation) Angelina Branca (Director, Fujitsu America Incorporated) Tina Suttle (Business Information Services Manager, Diebold Inc.) Brian Lawrence (Principal Sales Consultant, Business Intelligence, Oracle Corp.)Steve...

Book Review : WS-BPEL 2.0 for SOA Composite Applications with Oracle SOA Suite 11g | Eric Elzinga Oracle ACE Eric Elzinga finally gets around to reviewing the book by Matjaz B. Juric and Marcel Krizevnik. Which Development Tool Should You Be Using?? | Grant Ronald Ronald shares info about a UKOUG event next week that will help in selecting the right development tools. New Look's Award Winning Social Enterprise | Brian DirkingBrian Dirking shares some info on how UK fashion...

Webcast Series: Discover the Cloud Advantage for Databases Six-part Webcast series where you can ask questions and get best practices and advice from Oracle experts. New Open Group Guide Shows Enterprise Architects How to Maximize SOA Business Value with TOGAF | The Open Group Blog The guide’s main goal is to enable enterprises to deliver the expected business value from their SOA initiatives. Oracle Virtual Developer Day - Material now available on Demand! | Grant RonaldYou...

I recently recorded an ArchBeat Podcast featuring Helen Sun  and Karina Ishkhanova  discussing women in IT architecture. So it was an interesting bit of serendipity that I just ran across Researcher reveals how "Computer Geeks" replaced "Computer Girls", an article by Brenda D. Fink on the Clayman Institute's Gender Blog. Here's a short bit: Asked to picture a computer programmer, most of us describe the archetypal computer geek, a brilliant but socially-awkward male....

Reza Shafii, senior principal product manager for Oracle Coherence and Oracle Fusion Middleware Lifecycle, got in touch to let me know that he and co-authors Stephen Lee and Gangadhar Konduri have just published Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Architecture and Management (Oracle Press). I asked Reza to suggest a sample chapter for members of the OTN architect community who might want to take the book out for a test drive. Reza picked Chapter 3: Fusion Middleware...

Rethink SOA - A Recipe for Business Transformation | SOA World Magazine "Imagine you had the ability to create an entirely new business offering," says Bruce Tierney, "unlike anything available from your competition..." Desktop Virtualization for Contact Centers at ICMI ACCE | Oracle's Virtualization Blog Chris Kawalek shares information on this week's ICMI ACCE Conferrence & Expo in the Big Easy. Challenges aired at Health Data Initiative Forum - O'Reilly Radar | Andy Oram"A...

Data Warehouse Global Leaders Forum, Athens | John Mead Ritman Mead's John Mead shares his key take-aways from this recent Exadata-focused event. Enhance your business with Oracle Business Activity Monitoring | Capgemini "Within my latest project I had the opportunity to get acquainted with BAM," says Martijn van der Kamp,"and I’d like to share my enthusiasm about the product with you." Developing Custom Providers: HelloWorld and a Mail Provider | WebCenter PersonalizationCindy...