Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

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)

The Red Room - Oracle Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) GTMi Team Blog "To successfully embrace SOA, the CIO role can be one of the most important transformation agents," says the Red Room's Richard Ward. "The CIO though will require some key qualities, including being a visionary, being strategic and being viewed as strategic by the organisation’s leadership team, and lastly being an excellent communicator and in doing so have the ability to sell technology requirements to the...

The third program in the recently launched Architect Roundtable podcast series is now available. In this program, Oracle ACEs Bex Huff (blog) and Vince Salvato (blog)  and Oracle ECM product management director Billy Cripe (blog) join me to discuss the connection between Social Media and Enterprise 2.0, and the level of understanding of Enterprise 2.0 among IT and business stakeholders. (Listen) This program is the part one of a three-part discussion on Enterprise 2.0. Part...

Tech Spectator: A Salute to Dan Vlamis' College Girlfriend Jeff Erickson interviews Dan Vlamis, of the Business Intelligence, Warehousing and Analytics Special Interest Group (BIWA SIG). (tags: oracle BIWASIG) Exploring Management 2.0 (Fusion ECM) "New, socially or democratically based management systems throw up their own barriers by lacking decision making responsibility and empowerment, " says Enterprise 2.0 expert and author Billy Cripe. "There's no place the buck stops in a...