Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

Arch2Arch Podcast: Architecture Visibility (Part 1) Now you see it. Now you don't. Sometimes Enterprise Architecture gets noticed only when it fails. A panel of enterprise architects -- including Oracle ACE Directors Lonneke Dikmans (Approach Alliance) and Mark Simpson (Griffiths Waite), along with Mans Bhuller and Pat Shepherd from Oracle's Enterprise Solutions Group -- discusses why this happens, and what you can do about it. (tags: oracle otn arch2arch podcast enterprisearchitec...

The latest OTN Arch2Arch Podcast grew out of a Tweet, posted not long ago by Oracle ACE Director Lonneke Dikmans from Approach Alliance:   "If you execute the architecture process well, other people don't notice your success. If you fail, they feel it's useless and slow... How can you make architectural success more visible in your organization?" As soon as I saw that message I knew this would make for a great discussion on an Arch2Arch podcast.  I asked Lonneke...

Neo, wake up! SOA has you... (about beauty of WOA :) (Web Oriented Architecture and Enterprise 2.0) Hey, Coppertop! Emiliano Pecis offers you the red pill, or the blue pill. (tags: otn, oracle, soa) The ORACLE-BASE Blog - The downside side of #oow09 Oracle ACE Director Tim Hall on why he is depressed by OOW09. (tags: oracle, otn, oracleace,)

The great thing for me about being here at Oracle OpenWorld is the opportunity to have actual face-to-face conversations with members of the OTN architect community. My contact with these folks is usually limited to email, Twitter, and the occasional phone call. But since arriving here on Sunday, I’ve been up to my ears in fascinating, free-ranging conversations with an ever-expanding cast of architects, covering all things architecture. The talk at the Oracle ACE Dinner on...

Todd Biske: An Intro to the Oracle Enterprise Architecture Framework #OOW09 SOA author/blogger Todd Biske offers his impressions of the OEAF presentation at Oracle OpenWorld, 10.12.09. (tags: oracle otn enterprisearchitecture)

Gartner: You want cloud? You need SOA first | Service-Oriented Architecture | ZDNet.com "SOA is evolving into the underlying enabler for private clouds, to the point where they almost can be considered one in the same. SOA has often been a tough sell. The good news is that the business readily grasps — and even likes — the idea of private and public clouds as a way to better organize and manage computing resources." - Joe McKendrick (tags: cloudcomputing soa gartner)

Forty-eight hours from now I'll be several miles above and several hundred miles west of my current location, on my way to San Francisco and Oracle OpenWorld 2009. This will be my second OOW. Last year I was a newbie not only to the event but to Oracle itself, having officially joined the OTN team the previous June after the BEA acquisition. What was fantastic then, and what I'm very much looking forward to this year, is the opportunity to meet face-to-face with people that I...

The ORACLE-BASE Blog - People, guns and headache pills… "I’m sitting at Birmingham airport about to embark on my trip to OOW 2009. I’m always a bit nervous before OOW. It’s so big and so daunting. I know I’m going to enjoy it, but the prospect seems a little overwhelming…" - Oracle ACE Director Tim Hall (tags: oracle otn travel oow09) FeuerThoughts: Software Developers as Gods "Can you imagine telling a god that it has to test its creation before we are expected to live in it?...

Tips for your initial SOA project Launching a new SOA project using Oracle middleware? Oracle ACE Director Hajo Normann points out some critical considerations. (tags: oracle otn oracleace Middleware soa enterprisearchitecture) SOA Suite 11g Set Up on Solaris (Enterprise Architecture at Oracle) Pat Shepherd shares his recipe for setting up Oracle SOA Suite 11g and Oracle Service Bus on Solaris. (tags: otn oracle soa solaris enterprisearchitecture) Oracle Security Worst Practices Pete...