Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

Avoid Disaster, Embrace People-Processes Like Change Management (SOA Governance@work) Dave Berry asks, "Why do organizations implementing SOA often minimize the importance of people processes such as change management in favor of technical tasks?" (tags: oracle otn soa soagovernance enterprisearchitecture)

OTN Architect Day Heads West (ArchBeat) The people I talked with at the Architect Day events Boston, Toronto, and New York expressed genuine appreciation not just for the content of the various presentations, but also the chance to rub elbows, compare notes, and talk shop with their peers in the architect community. (tags: oracle otn architect arch2arch events) HP Oracle Database Machine, New Approach to Data Warehousing "By replacing the FC link between the host database...

The latest OTN Arch2Arch Podcast  features an interview with Bill Dettelback. Bill is a Principal Product Manager at Oracle, and is recognized for his expertise with WebLogic Server, Coherence, Tuxedo, and other Application Grid products. Prior to joining Oracle, Bill was the Product Manager for AquaLogic Enterprise Security at BEA. Bill has spent over 15 years working on enterprise middleware solutions for the Financial Services and Telecommunications industries. In this...

After stops this past spring in Boston,  Toronto, and the Big Apple, OTN Architect Day is headed west for two stops in California in July: July 9 – Westin Pasadena Hotel, Pasadena, CA (More information) July 22 – Hotel Sofitel, Redwood Shores, CA (More information) The people I talked with at the Architect Day events Boston, Toronto, and New York expressed genuine appreciation not just for the content of the various presentations, but also the chance to rub elbows, compare...

Oracle Fusion Middeware 11g ACE Director Briefing: "July 1 will be a happy day" (OTN TechBlog) In this casual video interview with OTN's Justin Kestelyn, Oracle ACE Director Chris Bucchere says that after attending the recent Oracle Fusion Middleware briefing, "The acquisition of BEA is finally going to make sense to me now." (tags: oracle fusionmiddleware oracleace) What is going on in the BI/DW world? (The Data Warehouse Insider) Jean-Pierre Dijcks summarizes the panel...

Oracle VM 2.1.5 (Wim Coekaerts Blog) Wim Coekaerts offers key points of the recent Oracle VM 2.1.5 release. (tags: virtualization) AMIS Technology blog » Blog Archive » Oracle Fusion Applications - it is for real! (and impressive too) "Here at the ODTUG 2009 conference, I have learned that Fusion Applications are for real, " writes Oracle ACE Director Lucas Jellema. "And I have seen them as well. And I was impressed. After several years of hearing, interpreting and to some...

Writing in IT Business Edge, blogger Loraine Lawson asks: But what if SOA governance isn't part of the solution, but part of the problem? A new report by global analyst and consulting firm Ovum suggests that, given the elitist approach to SOA governance, it could be contributing to the SOA backlash we've seen since spring of last year. SOA governance may indeed be the problem if there is a bad match between the SOA maturity level of the organization in question and the SOA...

The complete OTN Arch2Arch Podcast interview with Oracle SOA Suite Developer’s Guide authors Matt Wright and Antony Reynolds is now available. Part 1: Oracle SOA Suite Developer’s Guide: An Architect’s Perspective Matt and Antony discuss the concept’s presented in their book and indentify the most important takeaway for architects. Part 2: SOA Around the GlobeMatt and Antony talk about the differences and similarities between SOA initiatives in the UK and in APAC, and reveal...

Intelligent Decisions Go Beyond the Normal Ups and Downs "Today’s business environment is providing thrills that one could hardly imagine in the decade before -- and there is more to come, " says Gartner's Jim Sinur. "The timing and sophistication of decisions is going to change radically. I would also predict that the technologies employed will become more advanced and combined in new ways. We all know that we have been under serving the decision makers for a long period of...