Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

Earlier today an email went out to members of the global BEA Dev2Dev/Arch2Arch community with information on the status of those community Web sites and the migration of resources to the Oracle Technology Network. I've posted that message on wiki.oracle.com and will update the information as the migration proceeds. BEA Dev2Dev/Arch2Arch bloggers who have not yet migrated to new blogs should make every effort to do so now. The clock is ticking...   Technorati Tags: OTN,Oracle,BEA,...

Comparisons between physical architecture and digital architecture are inevitable. But in the first installment of a promised series of posts on the Approach Alliance blog, Mary Beijleveld offers a clear explanation of software architecture and the role of the architect, including this insight:  There is a major difference between ‘building’ architecture and software (system) architecture: A lot of decisions made in construction are hard to change. It is very difficult to go...

In a post announcing his last day at Forrester Research, Peter Kim offers this assessment of the internal and external forces that are reshaping the enterprise: At a macro-level, businesses must adapt to a new world of work.  As digital-born natives enter the workforce and all consumers assimilate new digital behaviors, organizations have no choice but to evolve from their legacy operational models, built on principles from the industrial revolution.  We are now in the social...

SOA Governance guru Mike Stamback, my former boss at BEA, has launched his new OTN blog, SOA Governance@work. The title comes from a series of posts I wrote while at BEA, covering various aspects of SOA governance. Mike will pick up the ball and continue that series as I turn my attention to broader architecture issues. Also check out Mike's profile on Oracle Mix.   Technorati Tags: soa governance,service life cycle managment,OTN,Oracle,blog

As a former BEA Arch2Arch blogger, I am selectively migrating posts from my old blog to this shiny new one. I'm using Live Writer to do this, which allows me to assign the original publication dates when republishing old posts. This is an effort to organize these old posts and provide some context.  Where necessary, these republished posts have been revised to update product names and other information that may have been affected by Oracle's acquisition of BEA.  Any such...

SearchSOA.com editor-in-chief Michael  Meehan blogs on recent Burton Group research on SOA adoption: According to Burton Group vice president and research director Anne Thomas Manes, some users had executed nearly perfectly in terms of doing SOA on the IT side, but the initiative had yielded no increased agility, quicker time to market or project savings because the business remained completely oblivious to the initiative. Yet the study also found that users who do break...

In the last couple of days I have responded to several emails from Oracle-acquired BEA people who noticed that this blog is now live, and want to set up their own OTN blogs. In the hope that I can head off any more such messages, here's what you have to do: Go to blogs.oracle.com Click Sign In Click Activate my account (in the New to blogs.oracle section) Complete and submit the form. You will be notified by email when your account is activated. Then... Repeat Steps 1 and 2. Click R...

After a very long wait I've finally been able to set up my OTN blog. Still tweaking the layout and widgets, but I'm in business, baby.

If you're a D2D/A2A blogger and you've been using Windows Live Writer to compose and manage your posts, migrating old posts to a new blog can be a heck of a lot easier than, say, removing your own tonsils. This is especially useful if other means of migration are unavailable. For the uninitiated, Live Writer can be configured to work with multiple blogs on multiple platforms. This allows you to very easily cross-post, that is, publish a single post to multiple blogs. That...