Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives Webcast: Drive Down IT Compliance and Application Costs with Automated Configuration Management Live Webinar Date: Tuesday, May 5, 2009 Time: 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET Duration: One Hour (tags: webcast event)

Oracle SOA Executive Workshop | IT EVENT "Join this intimate discussion among peers on the widely discussed topics of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Business Process Management (BPM); through the lens of a CIO. Meet as a group to talk about why SOA/BPM is important for the next generation of enterprise applications." Chicago, IL, April 21, 2009 Oracle and the Smart Grid - Turning Information into Power | IT EVENT "Learn how Oracle’s unique end-to-end Smart Grid...

Waters - Trading Technology - A Bridge to FX "Thanks to a sharp focus on CEP infrastructure and a team that focuses on in-memory query languages across a wide variety of industries, Oracle was able to provide FXall with tools based on the BEA WebLogic Event Server. These features and more can now be found in Oracle CEP 10gR3." (tags: soa weblogic eda oracle bea cep 10gR3) Mastering SOA: ODTUG SOA/BPM Symposium Oracle ACE Director Mike Van Alst on the SOA & BPM Symposium he and fellow...

Viewing SOA as project instead of an architecture The Red Room's Saul Cunningham writes: "It all goes back to the fundamental truth that I often write and speak about . SOA/Distributed-computing/Web 2.0/Mash-ups/Cloud-computing/yada-yada-yada all need an architecture rather than the 'let's go buy some software, do our project and be heroes.' In fact this attitude is what created the mess that SOA et. al. was born to fix." (tags: soa architecture)

Magic Quadrant for Integrated SOA Governance Technology Sets Oracle is designated as a leader in Gartner's "Magic Quadrant for Integrated SOA Governance Technology Sets." (tags: soa soagovernance gartner) Which comes first — SOA success or SOA governance? | Service-Oriented Architecture | ZDNet.com Joe McKendrick asks, "Is it ever too soon to get governance underway?" (tags: soa soagovernance) Tech Spectator: My Video Breakfast Takeaway: Work with a Storyteller What is "SPLAP?" "It’s...

And SOA on and SOA on...: Gartner's SOA Governance MQ: Good Guidance on Guidance Gartner: "Governance goes beyond the SOA realm. Sure, governance is a natural fit for a service oriented architecture yet that's not the only use for it as it can strengthen the entire software development lifecycle." (tags: soa soagovernance gartner magic quadrant) Oracle VM: Part 3 - Where Does Guest VM HA Fit-in Versus Other HA Software: HA Cluster Software and Guest VM HA (Oracle's Virtualization...

Why the Office Oddball Is Good for Business - TIME "A team of like-minded people sharing like-minded opinions behind a closed door — the dreaded group-think — has produced some of history's worst ideas." (tags: innovation collaboration) REST? SOAP? How about a bubble bath? (The World of SOA and EDA) Maneesh Joshi on his conversation with Ian Robertson, Director of Architecture, from Overstock.com, about "building a SOA-based enterprise where both IT and Business are working...

Incubator, Durable Topics, Durable Queues, Oh Boy! Cameron Purdy is "happy to announce that the Coherence Incubator has a new release of all the incubator projects." (tags: data grid coherence java) I Fell for Their Data - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com In reacting to an article that claims $2.8 billion in savings if Americans turn off their computers at night, Daniel Hamermesh explains that, "This story is yet another example of environmental savings uber alles — that saving $1...

Get Ready for Oracle Fusion - SOA Suite: Start at the Middle - with Oracle BPEL Process Manager How do you go about learning about all of the various Oracle SOA, Process Management, and Event technologies? Ajay Seetharam suggests you start with BPEL Process Manager, "the cornerstone of Oracle SOA." (tags: soa fusionmiddleware BPEL eda) Twitter in the Enterprise (Fusion ECM) Billy Crip asks, "Why should enterprises care about thousands of individuals speaking in 140 character...