Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

William Vambenepe jumps into the discussion of the evolution of SOA governance with a great round-up of recent  industry chatter on SOA governance in general and on the design-time/runtime divide, and offers this insight:   I like the approach of keeping SOA Governance closely integrated with the development and IT management infrastructures. At the cost of quoting myself (if I don’t, who will?) “it’s not just about managing Web services or Web sites, it’s about managing the...

Having come to Oracle via BEA, I thought it was worth giving an extra bump to OTN capo Justin Kestelyn's very recent post about OTN swag at Oracle OpenWorld, a post that includes details about how BEA customers can get swaggy with it in the OTN Lounge (Moscone West, 3rd floor). Read: Swag Upgrades at the OTN Lounge, Oracle OpenWorld 2008 Edition (OTN TechBlog)   Technorati Tags: oracle,otn,openworld,moscone center,swag,otn lounge,BEA

Writing in his AMIS Technology blog, Lucas Jelema offers his take on the evolution of SOA Governance: Not too long ago, companies such as Oracle and BEA claimed that all you would need for effective Governance is a Service Registry, such as the one from Systinet, implementing UDDI 3.0, that both these vendors were offering. Then BEA bought Flashline and with its Enterprise Repository product changed its tune completely. Now Oracle purchased BEA and started integrating the...

Over the last several weeks I've been on the receiving end of a few emails and other messages from people who are less than pleased with the migration of blog content from the BEA Dev2Dev/Arch2Arch sites. Much of this frustration is focused on difficulties in finding previously published blog content, particularly that related to BEA products. As has been addressed in this blog and elsewhere, a wholesale, mass migration of blog content from those BEA community sites was, for a...

This morning I discovered something exceedingly rare: a bit of writing about software that made me laugh out loud. On purpose. I've spent a significant portion of the last decade reading and editing what other people have written about software. While the people doing the writing are wonderful and smart and know their technical stuff up, down, and inside-out, their writing can sometimes be... informative. And by "informative" I mean dry enough to drain a swamp. To be fair,...

Congratulations to ORCLVille's Floyd Teter on his promotion from Oracle ACE to Oracle ACE Director. Floyd says: I just received some great news from Oracle. I'll be movin' on up from my status as an Oracle ACE to become an Oracle ACE Director. I'm pretty excited, as the Director designation provides more opportunities for evangelism - something I enjoy a great deal. It's also exciting because Oracle is just beginning to introduce the Oracle ACE Director program into the Oracle...

Based on the level of discussion that persists across the OTN community, it's clear that the dust still hasn't quite settled around Oracle's acquisition of BEA. Those who seek to further understand how BEA products fit into Oracle's middleware strategy will have an excellent opportunity to put their questions directly to the people with the definitive answers during a special panel to be held as part of Oracle OpenWorld 2008. The panel assembled for Ask the Middleware...

In his post Do SOA Governance Tools Matter?, ebizQ blogger Joe McKendrick picks up on David Linthicum's recent podcast interview with Oracle SOA Governance expert and fellow OTN blogger Mike Stamback. Joe particularly focuses on Mike's assertion that technology has a limited role in successful SOA Governance:  This is an important statement, because one of the challenges I've been having in my own work and writings with SOA governance has been separating out the organizational...

At 5:00 a.m. on any given morning, I'm in bed, curled into the fetal position, snoring slightly, and maybe drooling a little, with two hours to go before I rain down the first of a series of blows on my clock radio's snooze button. Not so with ORCLVille's Floyd Teter. Five a.m.  yesterday found Floyd on a train platform, with brain fully engaged, drawing an intellectual dotted line to connect the Oracle" Excellence Awards, globalization, Thomas Friedman, and the future of enterprise software... [M]aybe one of the big value propositions for enterprise apps should be the ability to support the decomposition and distribution of work at increasingly lower levels of granularity. This could be a very appealing business proposition to global enterprises (and, when it comes down to it, aren't we all global enterprises?). I see the potential for this type of thing with Fusion Middleware, especially BPEL and composite apps. Don't see it so much in the packaged apps world, although Fusion Apps may eventually represent an incremental move in that direction. You can follow Floyd's train of thought in his post: ORCLville: Globalization at 5 a.m. Maybe I should start getting up earlier...   Technorati Tags: OTN,Oracle,globalization,fusion middleware,Oracle Excellence Awards