Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

Trond-Arne Undheim on the emergence of The Open Web Foundation and the implications for established standards and standards organizations: The Open Web Foundation is an interesting new initiative which shows that a new generation is interested in standards. They have different needs. They are willing to create something new. Alternatively, they have lost faith in the traditional players like national standards bodies (certainly) as well as players of the 1990s' Internet age,...

As blogger John Brunswick points out, Enterprise 2.0 enjoys a high buzz factor and generates a lot of excitement, and that's not necessarily a good thing. That buzz and excitement can leave you all tingly and panting to implement lots of cool Web 2.0 tools within the enterprise. But decisions made while buzzed and excited often have interesting results. And by interesting I mean things like weird late-night phone calls and unexplained tattoos. So John suggests a calm,...

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...