Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

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...

Blog: Are Data Laundromats a Waste of Quarters? Dain Hansen is "dismayed by discussions that quickly jump to the conclusion of out-sourcing data quality as a software-as-a -service model." (tags: b2b dataintegration SaaS) 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know - The Book A list of 97 axioms selected for the book, "97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know," son to be published by. (tags: communication book architecture software)

EBIZ SIG Blog: UKOUG coverage Includes a short list of the Oracle bloggers covering OKOUG (tags: UKOUG) Oracle Magazine: Application Server Convergence Oracle Magazine interview with Ovum Senior Analyst Tony Baer about how Oracle’s acquisition of BEA Systems benefits customers from both companies. (tags: oracle bea acquisition) Blog: Accidental Architecture Insurance Dain Hansen describes how "lessons learned from SOA implementations" to start small also apply to to "larger...

Blog: Where SOA meets cloud computing Infoworld blogger David Linthicum asserts that "there is no moving from SOA to cloud computing. There is, however, using SOA to enable cloud computing, or using cloud computing as a jumping-off point for SOA. It's important that people understand the differences." (tags: soa cloud infoworld)

Blog: Is There No Single View of Master Data Management? Dain Hansen advises that "enterprise architects and data stewards should exercise caution before undertaking an MDM strategy without first implementing core data integration solutions that integrate their data-centric applications." (tags: mdm architect dataintegration) Blog: The Perfect ECM Architecture - Part 2 Red Room blogger Paul Ricketts continues his series on architecture and Enterprise Content Management. (tags: ecm a...

Blog: Currently evaluating Oracle BPM 10gR3 Arvind Jain begins a series of posts covering his experience with Oracle BPM 10gR3 - the latest version of what used to be BEA AquaLogic BPM. (tags: aqualogic bea bpm) Blog: Portal:: Oracle Webcenter presentation makes me look twice.. John Sim no longer thinks Oracle portal technology is “a pile of poo." (tags: portal webcenter enterprise2.0) Blog: Time Travel for OWSM Administrators Antony Reynolds equates IT with a BBC scifi series: "You...

Intelligent Enterprise: Making the Business Case for Mashups According to Doug Henschen, one of the conclusions from last week's Mash-Up Camp is that while mashups may not replace conventional development and integration approaches, "they may whittle down that long IT-department "to-do" list and deliver innovations in the process." (tags: mashups applications business innovation) Blog: I'd Buy That Twitter For A Dollar - Digital Life Blog - InformationWeek InformationWeek blogger...