Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

Navigating the SOA Security Waters | RIA Developer's Journal According to Ulitzer blogger Devi Gupta, "There are many principles that articulate different viewpoints as to whether SOA should be approached from the top-down or the bottom-up. Regardless of your viewpoint, it is critical to approach an SOA initiative the way you would any strategic project: to establish an overarching governance model and comply with that governance. Otherwise you could leave an organization open...

E2.0 Adoption Patterns and the Information Hub (Fusion ECM) Blindly diving into Enterprise 2.0 often results in "a piecemeal hodgepodge of different point solutions," according to Billy Cripe. "Pretty soon the E20 experiment starts to smell bad and employees don't understand why the company can't do something as simple as Facebook." (tags: facebook enterprise2.0)

William Vambenepe’s blog » Blog Archive » Managing the stack from top to bottom, including virtualization "So this is where it starts to get interesting," William Vambenepe says. "This is where the game starts to really be about not just the virtualization itself, but how it makes the rest of your overall data center better and more efficient. The Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control Oracle VM Management Pack is a huge step forward for users." (tags: virtualization OEM10gR5) It'...

Is there a better way to say SOA governance? - SOA Talk "The term “SOA governance” sucks," says SOATalk blogger Michael Meehan. "It reeks of someone else telling you what to do, hectoring you over every little detail of a project. It sounds about as desirable as a colonoscopy with an IMAX camera." (tags: soa soagovernance) Mainframe and Legacy Re-Architecture (Part 1) (Jason's Blog on Oracle Modernization Solutions) "Re-architecture is distinguished from greenfield...

Oracle Database Architecture in Less than 10 Minutes Stephane Faroult describes his video as “a pretty reckless description of what happens when you start Oracle and when you execute a statement.” (tags: oracle database architecture) Enterprise Architecture: From Incite comes Insight... In a post addressing networking among enterprise architects, James Governor asserts that "People want to connect to their peers above and beyond just some abstract concept of...

Time to check out social networking and SOA |Real World SOA | David Linthicum | InfoWorld "Lately I've been mixing SOA with social networking within a few engagements," writes David Linthiucum, "and I have to tell you that the value is clearly there. Thus, you can take the API from one social network, and perhaps a few others, and blend the information extracted with corporate information, such as sales data, to spot trends in what's being Twittered and what's being sold....

Proposed topics for discussion during the roundtable/whiteboarding sessions at the upcoming OTN Architect Day event in Toronto have been posted for voting in the OTN Architect Day Group on Oracle Mix. Topics include: Oracle Data Warehousing: Beyond ETL Agile and SOA: Peanut Butter and Jelly or Oil and Water? Defining SOA SOA Governance and several others If you have registered to attend Architect Day Toronto, or plan to, please take a moment to vote for the topics of your choice,...

President Obama Abandons Twitter | Paul Boutin | Voices | AllThingsD "So what happened?" asks Paul Boutin. "President Obama hasn’t tweeted once since being sworn into office. He posts weekly five-minute videos at whitehouse.gov. Can’t the guy type a one-line update?" (tags: socialmedia twitter obama) Facebook’s “In-House Sociologist” Shares Stats on Users’ Social Behavior Cameron Marlow: “Humans may be advertising themselves more efficiently. But they still have the same small...

Q&A: How and Why Oracle is Utilizing Virtualization and Open Source » Post » The Bitsource: The Pulse of Technology. Wim Coekaerts, Vice President Linux Engineering at Oracle, reveals what Oracle is doing with open source technology, their position on open source development, and how it has benefited the mammoth of the business software industry. (tags: virtualization opensource linux)