Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

Mark Rittman: Six Weeks With an Amazon Kindle 2 "From an Oracle perspective, a surprising number of technical books are available for the Kindle. I bought Jonathan Lewis’ 'Cost-Based Oracle Fundamentals,' for example, which does have a table of contents and actually works well on the format as it’s readable in a linear way but handy to have as a reference. Quite a few of the Apress and Oracle Press books are available on the Kindle, but watch out for pricing." -- Oracle ACE...

Todd Biske: Outside the Box » Blog Archive » Facebook for the Enterprise "In my opinion, viewing Facebook solely as a marketing/customer support channel is seriously limiting its use to an enterprise. The conversation should begin with an analysis of the communities that can be supported. Guess what? There’s a looming community with a very complicated social structure that exists within the walls of the company. Why can’t tools that are designed for enhancing communication and...

Oracle Technology Network Developer Day: Application Grid Development Has Landed (Oracle Technology Network Blog (aka TechBlog)) "Starting in January, we'll be adding an Eclipse-oriented Application Grid Development agenda to the mix and taking it on the road." -- Justin Kestelyn (tags: oracle otn developerday grid soa eclipse java middleware weblogic)

Staying Sharp with Real-time Data Integration Architectures (Data Integration and Management) Dain Hansen joins Forrester's Rob Karel in a Dec 15th webcast to discuss "new trends in real-time data integration, including how analytical architectural best practices aligned with solutions in business intelligence can foster better customer relationships, reduce risk, and improve profitability." (tags: oracle otn dataintegration businessintelligence forrester datafederation) SOA Author...

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...