Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

Top 10 CIO Issues For 2009 - Global CIO Blog - InformationWeek Bob Evans offers IW's list of the 10 items they predict will keep CIO's "excited and delighted in 2009." As predictions go this list is a bit like predicting that baby seals will be nervous around drunk hunters with softball bats. That doesn't mean the list is wrong, just not very... adventurous. (tags: cloud SaaS CIO outsourcing economy) Alaska Air Taps Oracle To Build Customer Loyalty -- Airline Loyalty Programs --...

Blog: Cuts, Thinks About Cutting, Part 2 In a 2nd post on the value of planning, Cary Milsap argues that "there's a time when the incremental value of planning drops beneath the value of actually doing something. " (tags: architecture planning softwaredevelopment) Blog: EU-Japan Collaboration on Open Standards (Trond's Opening Standard) Trond-Arne Undheim describes the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry's recently announced "Technology Reference Model (TRM) for the...

Tech Spectator: User Group Leadership: A Path to Success in Life? Jeff Ercikson's viudeo interview with Steve Lemme of the IOUG. (tags: community IOUG leadership video interview) SOA Patterns "A new Web site has been launched dedicated to the on-going development of SOA patterns and the expansion of the master SOA pattern catalog. SOAPatterns.org publishes summarized descriptions of all 85 patterns from the recently released book "SOA Design Patterns" along with 20 candidate...

In the holiday spirit I hope readers will forgive a wildly off-topic post. Tomorrow I'll participate in the pot-luck lunch that has become a holiday tradition at what is now Oracle's downtown Cleveland office, which used to be the BEA office, and before that the Flashline office. Over the years my contribution to these pot-lucks has been a double batch of homemade spinach balls, accompanied by what I've dubbed HazMat Mustard Sauce.  Every year I get asked for the recipe, so...

Rittman Mead Consulting » Blog Archive » ODI 10.1.3.5 Now Available for Download Mark Rittman offers his perspective on the recent release of Oracle Data Integrator 10.1.3.5. (tags: dataintegration oracleace odi) Blog: Technology Cannot Replace People Bex Huff says, "It is completely illogical to state that technology eliminates jobs. If that were true, then 10,000 years of innovation would mean no jobs left on the planet... The relationship between technology and jobs is much...

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)