Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

Analyst: Getting Grounded in the Cloud "Clearly there is some loss of control associated with cloud services and with outsourcing in general. You have to be willing to let somebody else be the custodian of your data. In some cases, companies are putting their intellectual property out there in the cloud. In response, service-level agreements [SLAs] and user license agreements have become much more systematized and granular. They permit CIOs to buy into multiple levels of...

The Software, Standards and Society in 2020 Series: 3. The Messy Globalization of Standards (Trond's Opening Standard) "Some of the people who are currently have a role in managing the system of standards at various levels, appear stuck in their old institutions," writes Trond-Arne Undheim, "insisting their processes, charters, or mandates should not change. Some defend their fossilized quarters as if they would provide more than temporary shelter from the relentless logic of...

Understanding Innovation (Virtual Identity Dialogue) This fascinating post by Mark Wilcox weaves TinyUrl, coffee, the Bacon and Cheese McGriddle, and badger-hunting dacshunds into a concise, coherent explanation of how imitation breeds innovation. (tags: innovation) Using Oracle Enterprise Linux with SOA Suite 10.1.3 (Antony Reynolds' Blog) Antony Reynolds to the rescue with a quick but useful tip for those who may have hit a snag while installing Oracle SOA Suite. (tags: soa linux...

Just got word that Oracle ACE Director Mike Van Alst (an architect with IT-Eye in the Netherlands) and Dave Berry (a Redwood Shores-based senior manager on Oracle’s SOA Governance team) are collaborating on an article on SOA governance that should see the light of day this summer.  That collaboration is interesting in itself, but the best part is that Mike and Dave are using their respective blogs as a collaboration space, so readers will be able to follow along as...

The Underground Oracle VM Manual | ITNewsCast Everything you ever wanted to know about Oracle VM, but were afraid to ask. Roddy Rodstein covers it all, from an introductory overview to details on Dom0, DomU, and more. (tags: virtualization oraclevm linux roddyrodstein) Book Review: Business Process Driven SOA using BPMN and BPEL (Olaf Heimburger's Blog) "Compared to the UML books on my book-shelf, " says Olaf Heimburger, "this one is a refreshingly small [and easy to...

The next meeting of the Bay Area Coherence Special Interest Group (BACSIG) is set for Tuesday June 9th, 2009.     Date: Tuesday - June 9, 2009   Time: 5:30pm PT for 5:45pm startWhere: Oracle Conference Center                350 Oracle Parkway                Room 203                Redwood Shores, CA               Google Map Presentations for this event Coherence*Web - Integration with WebLogic Server & WebLogic Portal by Rob Misek,  Senior Product Manager, Oracle Get Insight...

The Transformational Potential of Software Standards (Trond's Opening Standard) "The benefits of open standards are often spoken of in the abstract, that is, without quoting the $ impact and the € impact,"writes Trond-Arne Undheim. "Well, let's do that for a minute. But this time, with a structure. In fact, the benefits depend on who adopts them. Let me take an example, if the public sector adopts open standards, it makes public sector more effective, private sector more...

Tangible Benefits of E2.0 - Part 3: Real Examples (Fusion ECM) The third installment in Billy Cripe's Entreprise 2.0 series brings the good news in the form of "four brief anecdotes of where Oracle Enterprise 2.0 technology played a big role in achieving real results for real people doing real tasks." (tags: enterprise2.0 ecm)

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)