Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

@oracletechnet: Oracle Technology Network Newsletters Revisited "You may find this hard to believe, but some analysts contend that email newsletters are still among the most preferred methods of "information awareness" by developers today. And in our experience, the numbers back it up: subscriptions to Oracle Technology Network newsletters grow organically by 15% every year, even after you take continual list cleanup into account. " -- Justin Kestelyn (tags: oracle otn newsletters...

Lip Service: Meeting enterprise architecture communication challenges is critical. The greatest obstacle to successful enterprise architecture is the one that enjoys a good night’s sleep, loves a nice hot shower, and sometimes cheats on its diet. (tags: oracle otn oraclemagazine enterprisearchitecture communication)

Barry N. Perkins: Unique Business Value vs. Unique IT "Some solutions may look good today, solving a budget challenge by reducing cost, or solving a specific tactical challenge, but result in highly complex environments, that may be difficult to manage and maintain and limit the future potential of your business. Put differently, some solutions might push today's challenge into the future, resulting in a more complex and expensive solution." -- Barry N. Perkins, VP Oracle...

The third and final segment of my conversation with Red Room bloggers Sean Boiling, Richard Ward, and Mervin Chaing is now available. Listen to Part 1 Listen to Part 2 Listen to Part 3 As you’ll hear, this segment gets its title from another example of Mervin’s tactic for tweaking terminology to make it easier to sell stakeholders on certain SOA concepts. These are some very bright, very knowledgeable guys, so I encourage you to connect with them via the links below to...

Mark Kromer: Thank you for joining us @ Collaborate! (The EPPM Blogspot) Mark's post includes a link to "Driving Capital Program and Facilities Management Success," the EPPM presentation he and Mark Rosenberg gave at Collaborate 2010. (tags: otn oracle collaborate2010 eppm enterprisearchitecture) @ORACLENERD: COLLABORATE: Day 3 Wrap Up Oracle ACE and bestower of t-shirts Chet "oraclenerd" Justice shares his brush with ODTUG greatness. (tags: otn odtug collaborate2010 oracleace)

smattoon@: Enterprise Architecture for Drupal | DrupalCon San Francisco 2010 Details on today's (4/20/10) Drupalcon presentation by Scott "@smattoon" Mattoon. (tags: oracle sun enterprisearchitecture drupal) Mona Rakibe: Deploying BAM Data Control Application to WLS server "Typically we would test our ADF pages that use BAM Data control using integrated WLS server (ADRS), " writes Mona Rakibe. "If we have to deploy this same application to a standalone WLS we have to make sure we...

@lucasjellema: Book review -- Getting Started With Oracle SOA Suite 11g R1: A Hands-On Tutorial "I have to confess that I may be biased – or at least that I have a personal stake in books about the SOA Suite. I am currently in the final stages of writing the Oracle SOA Suite 11g Handbook, published by Oracle Press (see http://www.mhprofessional.com/product.php?isbn=0071608974 and http://wiki.oracle.com/page/Oracle+11g+SOA+Suite+Handbook for some supporting material and early...

The following is the output of a Yahoo Pipe I created to track the blog activity of members of the Oracle Technology Network Architect community who are attending (or, thanks to a volcano, were suppose to attend) Collaborate 2010 in Las Vegas. //   del.icio.us Tags: oracle,otn,bloggers,architects,collaborate 2010,yahoo pipes Technorati Tags: oracle,otn,bloggers,architects,collaborate 2010,yahoo pipes

  In his video on the questionable value of some business best practices, Frank Buytendijk mentions a recent HBR article by business guru C.K. Prahalad. I just learned that Prahalad passed away this past weekend at the age of 68. (Information Week obit) A couple of years ago I had the good fortune to attend Mr. Prahalad’s keynote address at a Gartner event.  He had an audience of software architects absolutely mesmerized as he discussed technology’s role in the changing nature...