Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

Oracle and Virtual Iron "On May 13, 2009, Oracle announced it has agreed to acquire Virtual Iron Software, Inc. (Virtual Iron), a provider of server virtualization management software. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close this summer. Until the deal closes, each company will continue to operate independently." (tags: virtualization oracle virtualiron)

This week’s OTN Arch2Arch Podcast features SOA author Thomas Erl and Oracle's David Chappell and Clemens Utschig-Utschig in a discussion of the participation of members of the Oracle community in the collaborative effort behind the book SOA Design Patterns. (Listen) During the discussion Thomas Erl mentions two articles that were published in The SOA Magazine. Those articles are: SOA - Ready for Primetime: The Next-Generation, Grid-Enabled Service-Oriented Architectureby David...

Tech Spectator: The Gift of Slack Picking up on an idea that started with Seth Godin and passed through Tom Kyte, Jeff Erickson adds this: "If you find yourself suddenly with extra time on your hands (read laid off), offer your talents and your leadership to an Oracle user group." (tags: sethgodin tomkyte slack oracle usergroups) Mastering SOA: My Take on Governance: People, Process and Tools Oracle ACE Director Mike Van Alst comments on a post by Oracle's Dave Berry...

Mastering SOA: Oracle Service Bus Explained "There's a lot of confusion towards the positioning of the Oracle Service Bus," says Oracle ACE Director Mike Van Alst. But in five short paragraphs Mike goes a long way toward clearing that confusion. (tags: servicebus fusionmiddleware oracle bea) Using Coherence as a Cache from a J2EE Web Application (Making Software Work) David Felcey gets down to the nuts and bolts of "how you should package your Web application so that it is a...

The Beginnings of Skynet (Insight-Driven Retailing Blog) "Computers have come a long way," observes David Dorf, "and many science fiction stories depict their continued maturation ultimatly leading to Skynet, HAL, WOPR, etc. The internet represents a seemingly inexhaustable source of data, but its just data. Powerful search engines working in harmony on grids can find that data in milliseconds, but that's where computers stop. Until now." (tags: skynet computers scifi data search wol...

Top 10 Components for Oracle UCM (Fusion ECM) Billy Cripe shares the list of "top 10 components for Oracle Universal Content Management" he presented as part of a talk at Collaborate09. (tags: ecm contentmanagement web2.0 enterprise 2.0) George F. Colony's Blog: The Counterintuitive CEO: How can CEOs understand social technologies? "You can't understand Twitter, Facebook, or blogging by reading an article in a magazine or a report from your CMO," says George Colony. "Sure, they can...

The final segment in the three-part discussion of SOA governance issues now available.  In SOA Governance – Getting it Wrong,  SOA author Todd Biske and Oracle SOA Governance experts Cathy Lippert (blog) and Sharon Fay wrap up their discussion of SOA Governance issues with a look at where most organizations get governance wrong. Listen. Missed the earlier programs? No problem: Listen to Part 1 Listen to Part 2 Listen to Part 3 About the panelists Cathy Lippert, Director of...

Blog: Identity Management Part I: Making friends with the Oracle Internet Directory (OID) for Oracle Application Server 10gR2 Ben Prusinski continues his series on Oracle Fusion Middleware technology with a focus on Oracle Application Server (10gAS). (tags: soa Middleware security oas)

Enterprise Architecture: From Incite comes Insight...: Employment Perks for Enterprise Architects James McGovern offers a revealing wish-list of career perks, distilled from conversations with real-life enterprise architects. (tags: enterprisearchitecture career) Creating a Consumer-Focused EA Forrester's Jeff Scott observes that in his years as a consultant he has never seen a framework that is truly focused on the Enterprise Architecture consumer, "the people that...