Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

So much failure, so little architecture "How many times do we have to fail," wonders Mike (Mad Greek) Kavis, "before somebody wakes up and realizes that you can't just buy the next hyped up technology solution, pop in an install disk, and click next 15-20 times? Initiatives like BPM, SOA, Cloud Computing, Business Intelligence, Master Data Management, and others require a well thought out plan that includes a heavy dose of good old fashion architecture. Why do so many IT...

Panelists Cathy Lippert, Sharon Fay, and special guest Todd Biske discuss the role of reuse in SOA, and explore the angles on how much emphasis effective SOA governance should place on reuse. Listen to part 1 (mp3) Listen to part 2 (mp3) Listen to part 3 (mp3) About the Panelists:   Cathy Lippert, Director of Product Management for SOA Governance at Oracle. Cathy is one of the visionaries behind the Flashline and BEA solutions that have evolved into what is now known as Oracle...

The 24/7 cable news reports on the Swine Flu pandemic had no apparent effect on attendance at OTN Architect Day in New York City on Wednesday. But for the crowd that turned out for the event, the temperature in the Grande Ballroom in the New Yorker Hotel posed a more immediate health threat. For reasons that remain a mystery, hotel staff had reduced the temperature in the vast, ornate ballroom to that of a beer cooler. The sound of my own teeth chattering made it difficult...

OraClever: Collaborate 2009: Mixing E-Business Suite and Pleasure Arnoud Roth provides a quick preview of his Collaborate09 presentation (tags: Collaborate09)

Enterprise 2.0 vs Web 2.0 (Fusion ECM) Billy Cripe serves up much link love with pointers to several excellent Enterprise 2.0 resources. (tags: enterprise2.0 oracle web2.0) New release of Oracle Composite Application Monitor and Modeler (Oracle Enterprise Manager) William Vambenepe offers a quick overview of improvements in version 10.2.0.5 of OCAMM. (tags: ocamm enterprisemanager compositeapplications) What does Tuxedo have to do with SOA? (Application Grid) "One of the fundamental...

Spring Cleaning As mentioned here previously, the Architect Roundtable series of podcasts that was carried as part of the OTN TechCast now has its own channel, OTN Arch2Arch Podcast. The good news is that programs from the Architect Roundtable series have been migrated to the new feed. The bad news is that those programs will be deleted from the OTN TechCast feed.  If you have links to any of those programs, please take appropriate action. Upcoming Programs Part 1 of the...

Oracle VM High Availability - Hands-on Guide to Implementing Guest VM HA (Oracle's Virtualization Blog) Honglin Su with the details on a new white paper covering Oracle VM Guest VM HA design and implementation (tags: oraclevm virtualization) Social Nets and BPM "BPM is starting to incorporate social networks into the human capital processes," observes Gartner's Jim Sinur. In this post he examines one organization's innovative mash-up approach to BPM and social networking. (tags: g...

LinkedIn Group Closing in on 500 Members (Oracle Warehouse Builder (OWB) Weblog) Antonio Romero reports that the group includes "product management, development and marketing from the OWB and ODI teams, as well as users of each product, and recruiters and hiring managers looking for candidates with OWB skills." (tags: socialmedia linkedin owb odi oracle dataintegration) The Purpose Driven Wiki (Fusion ECM) "The important part is not that your company stand up a wiki," writes Billy...

InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives Webcast: Drive Down IT Compliance and Application Costs with Automated Configuration Management Live Webinar Date: Tuesday, May 5, 2009 Time: 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET Duration: One Hour (tags: webcast event)