Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

@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...

Recent MDM Trends Confirmed at Oracle OpenWorld (Oracle Master Data Management) David Butler recaps some of the emerging trends in Master Data Management, based on activity at Oracle OpenWorld 2010.  (tags: oracle otn mdm architecture oow10 datagovernance datamanagement) Some Hearsay on Oracle Fusion Applications (The Complete CRM Blog) Divya Malik pulls together a few key quotes from industry thought leaders on Fusion Middleware Applications. (tags: oracle otn fusionmiddleware) @myfear:...

Andrejus Baranovskis: Advanced MDS Management for Oracle ADF 11g and Oracle WebCenter 11g Applications Oracle ACE Director Andrejus Baranovskis dusts off a sample application from one of his OOW10 sessions to illustrate options for MDS repository management.  (tags: oracle otn oracleace enteprise2.0 adf) CIOs say they need to make drastic changes but to what? "The ‘read and react’ enterprise optimising its opportunities seems to have finally arrived," says Capgemini CTo blogger...

Java EE.next - the cloud? Exalogic? Some thoughts. And fears. Oracle ACE Director Markus "@myfear" Eisele offers his editorial opinion on some of the news coming out of JavaOne 2010.  (tags: java javaone10 exalogic e2c2 cloud oracleace) Todd Biske: Making Good Decisions "My goal with these posts is to get away from these 'what’s wrong with EA' posts and to start the conversation on ways we can make it work," says enterprise architect Todd Biske. (tags: entarch enterprisearchitecture) Off...

White Paper: Oracle’s Optimized Solution for WebLogic Suite: An Optimal In-Memory Data Grid Architecture This paper by Nick Kloski, Nitin Ramannavar, and Satish Vanga discusses a drop-in implementation of Coherence running on Oracle’s Sun servers utilizing Oracle Fusion Middleware components, most prominently WebLogic Suite. (tags: oracle otn enterprisearchitecture hardware coherence weblogic fusionmiddleware) White Paper: Oracle Optimized Solution for Siebel CRM Authors Chad Prucha...

Chapter 4: Oracle VM Server Sizing, Installation and Updates | ITNewsCast Last update 09-25-2010   Chapter 4 covers the following topics: Introduction to the installation options for Oracle VM server Oracle VM Server sizing and resource requirements Walkthroughs of two Oracle VM server CD-ROM installations Configuring (tags: ping.fm) Podcast: SOA/Cloud Convergence with Thomas Erl and Clemens Utschig The latest Archbeat Podcast kicks off a three-part interview with SOA...