Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

Given the migration of a sizable herd of BEA Dev2Dev/Arch2Arch bloggers, I thought I'd reuse (that is, steal) an idea from Jake over at AppsLab and set up a game of blog tag as way to introduce those bloggers to the OTN community. Here's how Jake explained his version back in January: [T]he construct is simple, I will throw out eight things you might not know about me, then tag eight other bloggers. They will blog eight not-so-obvious things about themselves, then each tag...

A few days ago I referenced Mary Beijleveld's post on the Approach Alliance blog, in which she offers a high-level explanation of IT architecture by comparing it to building architecture. Rajesh Raheja's recent post on The Official AIA Blog takes the shopworn Lego(tm) metaphor for SOA to task, and in the process provides an excellent drill-down that perfectly complements Mary's post: Let’s put this in the perspective of SOA technologies. The general contractor is a BPEL Proces...

There's architecture, and then there's architecture. A July 23rd post on the AMIS Technology blog offers some spot-on  observations on the role user experience plays in IT architecture that gets beyond commodity to real competitive differentiation and value: Experience economy products put high demands on these non-functional requirements. Many vendors are able to produce MP3 players. These players all do the same; you can play music on them. The functionality of products can...

One of the features of the now month-old Getting Started: Architects page on OTN is the list of more-or-less randomly chosen Oracle ACEs who, in a discussion on an Oracle Mix group, either identified themselves as architects, or were mentioned by other architect ACEs as worthy of the attention.  As a result of that discussion, Dan Norris, Bex Huff, Jason Jones, and Mike van Alst (l-r,  below) have been smiling out from their thumbnail photos for much longer than...

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...