Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

No, BACSIG is not how Commissioner Gordon summons Batman. It's the Bay Area Coherence Special Interest Group, and it's holding its February meeting on Thursday 2/19/09 at Oracle HQ in Redwood Shores, CA. Scheduled speakers for the event include Cameron Purdy and NetSuite's Ted Rice. Come for the pizza, stay for the insight, expertise, and peer interaction. Date: Thursday - February 19, 2009 Time: 5:30pm PT for 5:45pm start Where: Oracle Conference Center 350 Oracle Parkway Room TBD...

In the first Architect Roundtable podcast, Eddie Awad and Jeff Davies talked, among other topics, about ways software architects might take advantage of Web 2.0/Enterprise 2.0 tools.  Just this morning I saw James McGovern's post, 2009 Resolutions for Enterprise Architects. What was the number one item on Mr. McGovern's list? Start building an alumni network. In case you haven't been paying attention, Indian outsourcing firms are now the biggest risk. We caught Satyam lying...

If you enjoyed the two-part SOA and BPM: Understanding the Connection podcast last month (part one, part two), you'll want to check out a new webinar the folks behind Oracle's BPM platform are presenting this Friday, 1/30/09. Get more info on: Achieve Significant Return-on-Investment and Cost Reduction With Oracle SOA and BPM Technorati Tags: otn, oracle, soa, bpm, webinar

Thanks to community input and collaboration on the Architect Roundtable group on Oracle Mix, the first of an ongoing series of Architect Roundtable podcasts is now available. The first program in the series is part one of my two-part discussion with Oracle ACE Eddie Awad and Oracle Sr. Prinicipal Product Manager and author Jeff Davies. The topic is architects and communication, a discussion that grew out of posts on Eddie and Jeff's respective blogs. Part two of that...

Aide-mémoire: Psychology of why reuse fails - courtesy of GeekAndPoke Kate Carruthers writes, "Within companies there is often little trust between departments and an unwillingness to rely upon things that other people have built." (tags: soa reuse) The Red Room - Oracle Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) GTMi Team Blog "SOA is all about making the business more adaptable to change. Why is this an issue? Because the processes and systems we have to support us are so rigid, so slow,...

Recent blog posts by David Chappell and Jürgen Kress include links to a number of SOA design patterns authored by members of the greater Oracle community, including a number of ACEs. These patterns are included in SOA guru Thomas Erl's new book, the aptly titled SOA Design Patterns. To save wear and tear on your mouse-clinking appendages, I've included links to those patterns below: Service Grid In Memory Fault Tolerant Collection In Memory Fault Tolerant Stateful Services Load...

Response to the first OTN Architect Day event scheduled for Feb 4th in in Boston has been spectacular. If you have not yet registered for this event, you still have a shot at getting on the waiting list for seats.The updated list of presenters/speakers for the Boston event include Dr. Paul Dorsey, Cliff Booth, Cameron Purdy, Bob Hensle, Clemens Utschig-Utschig, Anbu Krishnaswamy, Bennett Hirschhorn, and Stephen Bennet. Topics to be discussed include Agile and SOA,...

Cloud Computing Viewpoint: Cloud Services Need Strong Governance | Cloud Computing Journal James G. Kobielus writes, "SOA governance is maturing as a discipline, while cloud computing—the new galaxy in which services will burst forth—is anything but. Unfortunately, the cloud arena may continue to evolve so fast over the next several years that it will be difficult for consensus service-governance practices to coalesce. Still, emerging cloud services can benefit from the...

Back to SOA business |Real World SOA | David Linthicum | InfoWorld Davind Linthicum says, "SOA is nothing more than an approach to architecture, and most enterprise architectures are still badly broken. We can sit around and talk about how complex and tough this is going to be to fix, perhaps quit, or get to work on even the smallest effort to move the ball forward." (tags: soa architecture davidlinthicum) Mobile Internet To Grow Rapidly By 2010 -- Cell Phones Internet...