Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

Peter Evans-Greenwood: A prediction: many companies will start shedding IT architects in the next six to eighteen months "Will the business suffer if the EA team just up and left? Or if the business let the entire architecture team go? The business will only invest in an architecture function if having one provides a better outcome than doing nothing. The challenge is that architecture has become largely detached from the businesses they are supposed to support. Architecture...

Roger van de Kimmenade: What to put in BPM? Roger van de Kimmenade takes a stab at describing "some general rules or guidelines that you use to decide what to put in BPM and what to put in a Service."  (tags: oracle otn soa bpm) Richard Veryard: Architecture and Logic "Enterprise architects are typically adept at going up to a higher logical level (for example HOW - WHAT - WHY) regardless of whether this is appropriate in a particular context, and may not understand why this doesn't...

Todd Biske: Architecture by Influence: Solution Architecture "A key to any Enterprise Architecture program is solution architecture. Solution architecture is where work gets done. If your EA team is disconnected from the solution architecture effort, you’ll probably hear the term “ivory tower” a lot. Unfortunately, it’s far more common than you may think." -- Todd Biske (tags: enterprisearchitecture solutionarchitecture) Bob Netherton: VirtualBox 3.2.10 has been released Bob...

OTN ArchBeat Podcast: SOA/Cloud Convergence - Part 3 SOA experts Thomas Erl and Clemens Utshig wrap up their discussion of SOA and Cloud computing with a look at upcoming books in Erl's Service Oriented Computing series.  (tags: oracle otn SOA Cloud podcast thomaserl) Brenda Michelson: Empowered: Workplace HEROes + DIY Technology = Recipe for Shadow IT Disaster, or Front-Line Innovation? : "Like many with corporate IT backgrounds, I find the do-it-yourself (DIY) technology movement...

Eric Sharakan: Oracle VM Server for SPARC 2.0 released Eric shares details on a "major new release of our SPARC virtualization technlogy." (tags: oracle virtualization sparc) @bex: Site Studio 10gr4 Samples Oracle ACE Director Bex Huff shows the way to the official Oracle Site Studio Samples page. (tags: oracle otn oracleace enterprise2.0 oraclesitestudio) Minda Zetlin: Why IT Departments Need Marketing Smarts "As business leaders see increasingly sophisticated consumer technology and...

@thereallewisc: Parallel Operations in Oracle 11g: A Definition in Plain English "Parallel does not fix a poorly designed database or application. If it runs like crap serially, it will runs like crap in parallel. " -- Oracle ACE Director Lewis Cunningham. (tags: oracle otn oracleace datawarehousing businessintelligence) ORCLville: Fusion Applications - By The 3's "Different people will describe the value proposition for Fusion Apps in different ways, but it really all falls into...

ORACLENERD: OBIEE 11G: Connection Gotchas "While anarchy is fun," says Oracle ACE Chet "ORACLENERD" justice, "I typically prefer a more guided approach." (tags: oracle otn database businessintelligence obiee) Resolving timeouts while using ejb beans for SOA invocation - deployment Khanderao Kand shares a tip.  (tags: java ejb soa) Richard Veryard on Architecture: Intelligence as Requirement "Let's suppose an organization suffers from a number of the symptoms of organizational stupidity...

Richard Veryard on Architecture: Single cause of failure "In the case of the  [sudden and unexplained May 2010 plunge in US stock prices], the key question for market regulators and market players is about the resilience and intelligence of the market in the face of certain classes of activity. Although the finger of blame is now pointing to a piece of software, the architectural question here is not software architecture but market architecture - regarding the market as a...

@oraclebase: Optimization is a lifestyle Oracle ACE Director Tim Hall ruminates on the need for process optimization in real-life, non-IT situations. (tags: oracle otn oracleace optimization) On The Peoplesoft Road: Peoplesoft and Oracle Edition Oracle ACE Nicolas Gasparotto offers advice on choosing the right Oracle database edition for for your Peoplesoft  application.  (tags: oracle otn oracleace database people) Now Available: Multi-node Topology Support for Integrated SOA Gateway on...