Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

Which Coherence Edition is Right for Me? (Antony Reynolds' Blog) Antony Reynolds answers the question with concise descriptions of the features and functions of the Standard, Enterprise, and Grid editions of Oracle Coherence (tags: grid coherence) Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard | The Onion - America's Finest News Source "Everything is just a few hundred clicks away." (tags: funny humor geek) Enterprise Systems | Demystifying Enterprise 2.0: It's...

OTN Architect Program manager Linda Bronson -- who, many of you may remember, headed up BEA's Dev2Dev and Arch2Arch efforts -- has been hard at work planning and organizing the OTN Architect Day series that will make its debut in Boston on February 4th. A truly wonderful person, Linda is a veteran organizer of such events, including BEA's Architect Summit series, so she knows what she's doing. If you're a Boston-area architect you should make every effort to attend this...

The reactions to Anne Thomas Manes pronouncement of the termination of SOA's life functions are piling up like cars on a icy interstate, and I can think of no reason I shouldn't drive right into the pile. Ms. Manes' well-reasoned and thoughtful blog post (SOA is Dead; Long Live Services) suffers from a too-catchy headline, a headline that in my particular case triggered misperceptions that, unfortunately, weren't dispelled until mid-way through the article. That's ironic,...

Top 10 CIO Issues For 2009 - Global CIO Blog - InformationWeek Bob Evans offers IW's list of the 10 items they predict will keep CIO's "excited and delighted in 2009." As predictions go this list is a bit like predicting that baby seals will be nervous around drunk hunters with softball bats. That doesn't mean the list is wrong, just not very... adventurous. (tags: cloud SaaS CIO outsourcing economy) Alaska Air Taps Oracle To Build Customer Loyalty -- Airline Loyalty Programs --...

Blog: Cuts, Thinks About Cutting, Part 2 In a 2nd post on the value of planning, Cary Milsap argues that "there's a time when the incremental value of planning drops beneath the value of actually doing something. " (tags: architecture planning softwaredevelopment) Blog: EU-Japan Collaboration on Open Standards (Trond's Opening Standard) Trond-Arne Undheim describes the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry's recently announced "Technology Reference Model (TRM) for the...

Tech Spectator: User Group Leadership: A Path to Success in Life? Jeff Ercikson's viudeo interview with Steve Lemme of the IOUG. (tags: community IOUG leadership video interview) SOA Patterns "A new Web site has been launched dedicated to the on-going development of SOA patterns and the expansion of the master SOA pattern catalog. SOAPatterns.org publishes summarized descriptions of all 85 patterns from the recently released book "SOA Design Patterns" along with 20 candidate...

In the holiday spirit I hope readers will forgive a wildly off-topic post. Tomorrow I'll participate in the pot-luck lunch that has become a holiday tradition at what is now Oracle's downtown Cleveland office, which used to be the BEA office, and before that the Flashline office. Over the years my contribution to these pot-lucks has been a double batch of homemade spinach balls, accompanied by what I've dubbed HazMat Mustard Sauce.  Every year I get asked for the recipe, so...

Rittman Mead Consulting » Blog Archive » ODI 10.1.3.5 Now Available for Download Mark Rittman offers his perspective on the recent release of Oracle Data Integrator 10.1.3.5. (tags: dataintegration oracleace odi) Blog: Technology Cannot Replace People Bex Huff says, "It is completely illogical to state that technology eliminates jobs. If that were true, then 10,000 years of innovation would mean no jobs left on the planet... The relationship between technology and jobs is much...

Writing in his Financial Page column in The New Yorker, James Surowiecki offers this bit on the problems that have landed like a cataclysm-inducing comet on the newspaper industry: In a famous 1960 article called Marketing Myopia, Theodore Levitt held up the railroads as a quintessential example of companies inability to adapt to changing circumstances. Levitt argued that a focus on products rather than on customers led the companies to misunderstand their core business. Had...