Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

On December 10-11, 2009 Gartner will host its Enterprise Architecture Foundation Seminar at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. Day one of that seminar will conclude with an enterprise architecture case study presented Hamidou Dia (Senior Director, Enterprise Architecture, Oracle) and Hamza Jahangir (Director, Enterprise Architecture, Oracle). That event is already sold out, but you can get a preview of the presentation in the latest Arch2Arch podcast (mp3). And if you have...

William Vambenepe: Expanding on “twitter with a brain” "As always in computer science, a new level of decoupling adds opportunities for extensions (and breakage too, of course)." -- William Vambenepe (tags: oracle otn web2.0 twitter data) Chris Muir: Upgrading WLS using the Oracle Smart Update utility "Oracle provides the Smart Update utility to upgrade WebLogic Server installations between versions, or to apply specific patches applied by Oracle Support. This post considers...

Oracle RAC Vs Single Instance : System Admin point of view « Unixskylab "An Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC), is about a clustered Oracle database. If a RAC is properly set up, all the nodes (Servers) are active at the same time, acting on the same one Database. This is very different from a failover Cluster. " -- unixskylab (tags: oracle otn grid clustering RAC) Calling EJB 3 from BPEL 10.1.3 (Antony Reynolds' Blog) "Despite a number of useful blog entries out there it...

If you’re a regular visitor to the Oracle Technology Network  you’ve probably encountered these little icons:   But do you know what they signify? Those symbols, when displayed next to someone’s name, indicate that that person has achieved Oracle ACE () or Oracle ACE Director ( ) status. Members of the Oracle ACE Program are IT professionals whose real-world insight and expertise – and willingness to share it – has earned them reputations as leaders in the OTN community, the...

Business and IT Alignment (Frank Buytendijk Blog) "It is the role of IT to see commonality between functional requirements, and take an integrated approach. It would be a lot easier if the business departments would align with, well, the other business departments, instead of IT having that struggle all the time themselves." -- Frank Buytendijk (tags: oracle otn enterprisearchitecture entarch) AMIS Technology blog » Versioning an Oracle ESB service Aino Andriessen describes "a...

Application Platform Strategies Blog: The SOA Manifesto "SOA is not about technology. SOA is entirely about design. You can't achieve service-oriented systems unless you apply the service orientation paradigm during system design. " -- Anne Thomas Maines (tags: soa soamanifesto)

So, What Do You Do? : The AppsLab "For a while, I thought using the phrase “I solve problems with software” would be a good one to use. Then I heard myself say that and wanted to vomit. " - Jake Kuramoto (tags: oracle otn appslab) Enterprise Modules Project (Gemini), oracle, springsource and weblogic server 'Most notably, this project would continue the recently presented invests taken by Oracle in OSGi and a WebLogic DM server. It could lead to a defined standard ways of...

  Throughout the afternoon of day one of the QCon conference in San Francisco, a group of young women at the InfoQ table repeatedly burst into song. Repeatedly. So let’s file this under “revenge.”   del.icio.us Tags: #qcon

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