Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

Fresh off the presses this month from Packt Publishing! Process Modeling using BPMN 2.0 is a sample chapter (PDF, 26 pages) from Getting Started with Oracle BPM Suite 11gR1 – A Hands-On Tutorial, written by Heidi Buelow, Manoj Das, Manas Deb, Prasen Palvankar, and Meera Srinivasan. Thanks once again to Suzanne Ritter from Packt Publishing for providing yet another sample chapter.   del.icio.us Tags: bpmn,packt,sample chapter,process modeling,oracle,otn Technorati Tags: bpmn,packt,...

More Oracle VM Templates to Accelerate Application Deployment (Oracle's Virtualization Blog) Honglin Su shares a list of newly released Oracle VM Templates available for download.  (tags: oracle otn virtualization oraclevm) Mark Rittman: A Couple of Interesting OBIEE Surveys Oracle ACE Director Mark shares some statistics from BI Survey 9, "a vendor-independent, in-depth survey of BI customers and implementers that aims to understand the success factors behind BI Projects, and also...

Web Cornucopia (tags: ping.fm javaone10) Zombie Technologies (Dr Cloud's Flying Software Circus) "My recent copy of Wired Magazine declared, on its cover, that The Web is Dead!  Really?  What killed it?  Oh, right, Cloud Computing.  So, why do we have all these dead, zombie technologies still with us?  Mainframes.  PCs.  Browsers.  Operating systems.  A veritable host of the undead. What will The Cloud kill?  Probably nothing." -- Dr. Cloud (tags: oracle otn cloud) Oracle Data...

Oracle BI EE 11g - Incremental Web Catalog Migration - Patching Web Catalogs "In 11g, web catalog incremental migration is supported with more granular control on how the 3 way merge happens," says Venkatakrishnan J. (tags: oracle otn businessintelligence obiee) Come into the light, Architect... (Oracle Develop Conference Blog) "As a tip of the hat to all you application, solution, and enterprise architects out there,  Oracle Technology Network is hosting an Architect Meet-Up at...

Two new sample chapters from books by members of the OTN architect community are now available from OTN. BPEL with Oracle Service Bus and Service Registry is a chapter (PDF, 36 pages) from WS-BPEL 2.0 for SOA Composite Applications with Oracle SOA Suite 11g, from authors Matjaz B. Juric and Marcel Krizevnik. Matjaz, an Oracle ACE Director (profile), holds a Ph.D. in computer and information science and is associate professor at the University of Maribor. He is also the...

All three parts of the ArchBeat panel discussion of IT Optimization are now available. Listen to Part 1 Listen to Part 2 Listen to Part 3 The panelists for this conversation are: Basheer Khan: Founder and CEO, Innowave Technology, Oracle ACE DirectorBlog | Twitter | LinkedIn | Oracle Mix | ACE Profile  Alan Levine: Senior Director, Enterprise Architecture Group, Oracle CorporationLinkedIn  Paul Silverstein:  Senior Director, Enterprise Architecture Group, Oracle CorporationLinkedIn ...

Eric A. Stephens: Thoughts on John Zachman (Enterprise Architecture at Oracle) "I just perused Mr. Allega's (Gartner) recent article on the legal quagmire that is stirring around the Zachman brand, framework, and its two proponents. It is too bad such a pair of thought leaders will end their careers in such a manner. Upon reading the article I thought I would share some thoughts about Zachman." -- Eric A. Stephens (tags: oracle otn entarch zachman) What CIOs Look for in...

MySQL Essentials Part 4: How to Develop Simple .NET Applications for MySQL | Live Webinar - September 30, 2010 "In this webinar we will explore the use of MySQL as the underlying database for .NET applications. Using several example programs, we will dive into how to develop a few starter applications for MySQL in C# and ASP.Net using Visual Studio. We will also guide you through the process from installing MySQL Connector/NET, setting up Visual Studio, starting a...

Webcast: Linux Configuration and Diagnostic Tips & Tricks (tags: linux, linux) On Demand Webcast: Technical Best Practices for Accelerating Linux Deployments with Oracle Validated Configurations Oracle Validated Configurations are pre-tested architectures spanning software, hardware, storage, and network components, documented as best practice guides and available for free download. Oracle Linux experts Sergio Leunissen and Thor Nolen share best practices and real-world use...