Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

The latest OTN ArchBeat Podcast features a conversation with Cathy Lippert, Oracle’s director of product management for SOA Governance, and Sharon Fay, product manager for Oracle Enterprise Repository and a member of SOA Gov product management team. Cathy and Sharon talk about SOA governance in general, about the products in Oracle’s SOA governance solution, and about some of the SOA governance sessions taking place next week at Oracle OpenWorld. Listen You’ll find a complete...

New Amazon EC2 image for Oracle SOA (and BPM) Suite (Oracle SOA Suite - Team Blog) The new Oracle BPM 11gR1, including the latest Oracle SOA Suite 11gR1 Patchset-2 is now available as a fully configured Amazon Machine Image (AMI). (tags: oracle otn cloud virtualization soa bpm) Pre-built Virtual Machine for SOA Suite and BPM Suite 11g This VirtualBox appliance contains a fully configured, ready-to-use SOA/BPM 11g R1 installation.  (tags: oracle otn soa bpm virtualization) @deltalounge:...

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...