Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

The Red Room - Oracle Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) GTMi Team Blog "SOA needs the most highly skilled technical and business resources, including key external consultants, that money can buy," says this unidentified Red Room blogger. "You get what you pay for in this game, and what you don’t want are unskilled consultants and staff putting your business under unnecessary risk." (tags: soa soagovernance soamaturity) SOA Governance vs SOA Maturity (The proverbial Proper...

While making the rounds this morning I found two blog posts that present opposing opinions in what strikes me as a chicken-and-egg argument regarding SOA Maturity and SOA Governance. In SOA Governance vs SOA Maturity, Ruan Malan offers a rather negative view of SOA governance: [SOA Maturity]  is often seen as less of an urgent topic than SOA Governance. With the right governance maturity is a matter of time, right? Wrong. . .SOA reference architecture and governance thinking...

Recession or not, there's more to SOA than.. (The World of SOA and EDA) Is SOA only about cost control and efficiency? Maneesh Joshi thinks otherwise. "SOA has a lot more to offer than just that. Innovation is the third and equally important pillar of SOA," Maneesh writes, "and there is [no] better a time to innovate than [in] an economic recession." (tags: soa innovation recession)

IT Linchpin 2006: The (Business-Driven) Enterprise Architect "In Business-Driven Architecture, enterprise architects are not only responsible for articulating the architecture, but also for actualizing the architecture, and introducing the architecture into IT business projects. Business-Driven Architecture has a strong bias to action, business opportunity, and project and portfolio advancement." Brenda Michelson's post is two years old, but still on target. (tags: enterprisearc...

Todd Biske: Outside the Box » Blog Archive » Don’t Go On an IT Diet, Change Your Behavior Todd Biske on IT investment in the downturn: "Priorities have shifted to where cost containment and cutting are at the top of the list. While the knee-jerk reaction is to stop investing in any long-term initiatives, this could be a risky approach. If I don’t eat for 4 days, I may quickly drop the weight I need to, but guess what? I still need to eat. Not eating for 4 days will only make...

The Application Server and SOA | JAVA Developer's Journal "While a governance process and an enterprise service bus may both distinguish SOA from other architectural approaches and be crucial in SOA's success,"writes JDJ's Larry cable, "the focus on these distinguishing and valuable characteristics of SOA seem to overshadow all else - so much so that one could be forgiven for forgetting the 'services' themselves, and the crucial role and capabilities of the container(s) and...

Presentations from Architect Day Boston (Final update) » Oracle Mix All presentations from OTN Architect Day in Boston (2/4/09) are now available on the OTN Architect Day group on Oracle Mix. (tags: otn architect architectday presentations)

The Myth of "Right" (SOA Thinker) For an architect, the appropriate response to change, according to Jeff Davies, "is to design software systems and architectures that are flexible. They should not be resistant to change, they need to be resilient to change. This is the fundamental driver behind SOA. The world is changing quickly, your business is changing quickly, you need an architecture that can adapt quickly to these changes." (tags: soa oracle otn) Blog: SOA Governance...

There were two big clues that the first OTN Architect Day, held in Boston last week, was a big success. The first was the larger-than-expected turnout, despite yet another day of frigid temperatures in what the Boston natives I spoke with described as the worst winter in memory. The second clue was that the typical 2:00 pm fade-out that often thins the herd at similar events never happened. By then the roundtable and whiteboarding sessions were in full swing and no one I saw...