Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

In the workplace: Tips for managing different generations | ITworld ITWorld's Paula Jacobs interviews Eric A. Mortensen, Sean Hull, and others about the differences in work styles between different generations. (tags: oracle architect sherwinwilliams babyboomers genx geny itworld) Blog: More from the Architect's Dictionary Jeff Davies continues his mission to unmuddy the waters of all things architecture. (tags: architecture soa soaintegration esb) Blog: OSB and JMS Business Service...

Blog: Open Innovation and Seeker Solver Networks (Project Lifestyle) Andrew Sparks writes, "The key underlying concept is that innovation is moving away from being an in-house DIY process of painful invention. In this age of Google and Wikinomics it’s faster to find an existing solution that someone already thought of and applied in another industry (where solving the problem might be a basic requirement to staying in business) and adapt that to your situation. Adopt and...

A few weeks ago I referenced a couple of Joe McKendrick posts that mentioned a hot job market for IT architects, even in the face of a spreading economic malaise. (That's a French word that, roughly translated, means, "My 401k is worth WHAT!!?") So as a service (a minor one, to be sure, but a service nevertheless) to the OTN architect community, I created an Oracle Wiki page with several RSS widgets that pull in search results from Monster, Dice, and a couple of other job...

Bob Evans, writing on InformationWeek's CIO Uncensored Blog, offers this advice to CIOs: Recently uncovered fossil records indicate that the tattered cliché of "CIOs must align IT with the business" was first uttered shortly after the discovery of fire. And while that bromide made sense for a few thousand years, it no longer applies here in the early 21st century because today's mandate for CIOs must be to align IT with their *customers*, not with their business. Because one...

Blog: State of the SOA Union Assessing the state of SOA, Bradley D. Brown observes that "we're beyond the early adaptor phase and we're into the mainstream at this point. Yet, about 1/2 of the organizations in the world haven't even started an SOA project." (tags: soa xml webservices shortcut:soa)

Blog: SaaS for Techies (Antony Reynolds' Blog) Antony Reynolds describes SaaS as "all about providing a useful function to the customer without the customer being concerned about it is delivered. In that sense it is SOA taken taken to the next level." (tags: saas soa cloud)

Blog: Obama's Vision For A CTO - Political Tech Blog - InformationWeek K. C. Jones reports that "members of President-elect Barack Obama's transition team have indicated that the CTO will be a Cabinet-level post and advisers said several Cabinet members will likely be named by the end of the month." (tags: obama CTO usgovernment) Blog: Event Processing in Enterprise Operations Perren Walker "examines event processing in enterprise operations and how BI, BAM and BPM complement...

One of the standout presentations at last week's Defrag Conference was Jonathan Yarmis's  Data, Data Everywhere. Yarmis's presentation offered some truly astonishing statistics about the sheer volume and explosive growth of data in an increasingly connected world. His talk also touched on the impossibly challenging task of panning for gold in the rushing whitewater of the datastream.  Fortunately, Yarmis's presentation is available on SlideShare, so you can see for yourself,...

Blog: Standards Reduce Integration Costs David Dorf interviews Richard Halter, enterprise architect for the Association for Retail Technology Standards (ARTS). (tags: soa standards xml integration) Blog: Don't Give Up (on SOA) Saul Cunningham asks, "Why does Europe find SOA compelling while Asia takes a much more cautious stance? Do the reasons for not up-taking SOA (lack of skills and lack of business case) have any relationship to the financial crisis? Or do they have more to do...