Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

Writing in his Financial Page column in The New Yorker, James Surowiecki offers this bit on the problems that have landed like a cataclysm-inducing comet on the newspaper industry: In a famous 1960 article called Marketing Myopia, Theodore Levitt held up the railroads as a quintessential example of companies inability to adapt to changing circumstances. Levitt argued that a focus on products rather than on customers led the companies to misunderstand their core business. Had...

Blog: Free Chapter Download of Web 2.0 in the Enterprise (Fusion ECM) The SearchOracle blog is offering a free download of a chapter from Billy Cripe's book "Reshaping Your Business with Web 2.0." (tags: book web2.0) What If Santa did SOA? |Real World SOA | David Linthicum | InfoWorld David Linthicum's last post for 2008 -- or so he says -- asks the inevitable question. To paraphrase Col. Kurtz: The whimsy...the whimsy... (tags: soa santa) Is There Anything Twitter Can't Do? -...

Advanced Software Architecture Blog: EA & SOA in Down Economy Leo Schuster, VP and General Manager of Enterprise Services at National City Bank, backs up his argument that "EA and SOA investment is critical to the companies’ success – it will enable them to stay competitive, achieve significant efficiencies, and potentially even gain market share." (tags: soa enterprisearchitecture NationalCity) What SOA can learn from cloud computing. And, the other way around. |Real World SOA |...

Computerworld: Nicholas Carr on 'The Big Switch' to cloud computing Speaking of cloud-based systems, Nicholas Carr tells Computerworld: "Eventually, if not already, they're going to be more reliable than the average company's systems are. " (tags: cloudcomputing nicholascarr computerworld)

Blog: Oracle and the Semantic Web (Fusion ECM) Billy Cripe discusses how the "huge influx of unstructured information generated in no small part by the mass adoption of web 2.0 technology has made semantic web tagging/formatting/searching/aggregating/parsing a necessity." (tags: enterprise2.0 web2.0 semantic web) Blog: Distributed BTree (SOARanch) Sandeep Phukan on the use and benefits of a Distributed BTree in achieving cloud-based memory . (tags: soa cloud blog)

Early in October, SOA blogger Jeff Davies published the first of two posts in his Architect's Dictionary series in an effort to deal with what he described as "a hazard of specialization in any field." That hazard, According to Jeff, is that "you assume that everyone you speak with not only recognizes your particular jargon, but also that they have the same definition for those terms that you do." Joining in the effort to improve communication between IT professionals, Oracle...

Blog: Shopping on the iPhone David Dorf reviews several iPhone shopping applications. (tags: iphone) News: Hackers Successfully Install Linux on a Potato (BBSpot) As reported on BBSpot: "Hackers from the LinuxOnAnything.nl Web site successfully installed Linux on a potato. It's the first time the operating system has been successfully installed on a root vegetable." (tags: potato linux humour geek humor funny fun) Podcast: BEA Certification Update Former BEA certification program manager...

Blog: EDA the successor of SOA? Darwin IT blogger Martien van den Akker takes issue with Gartner's prediction that EDA will be the successor to SOA. (tags: soa eda bpm) Blog: In Defense of Content Silos... Bex Huff says: "If you want a successful ECM/Knowledge Management/ Enterprise 2.0 initiative, one of the biggest mistakes you could make is to focus too much on sharing information." (tags: ecm km enterprise2.0) Blog: OpenSource Distributed Computing Alternatives SOA Ranch blogger...

Article: Web 2.0 Shapes the Next Generation of Enterprise Retail Software (Retail Info Systems News) Oracle's David Dorf illustrates how " Web 2.0 concepts are coming to life in today's enterprise retail software." (tags: enterprise2.0 web2.0) Blog: The Enterprise 2.0 Recovery Plan Andrew McAfee (Associate Professor, Harvard Business School) offers a "thought experiement" in which he describes the approach he'd take to use Enterprise 2.0 to achieve the "biggest and fastest bang...