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This Blog is Half as Popular As It Used to Be - Why?

Wow, I am seeing some disturbing stats where this blog is concerned. Basically, it appears that either half as many of you are reading it, or that all of you...

Wow, I am seeing some disturbing stats where this blog is concerned. Basically, it appears that either half as many of you are reading it, or that all of you are now reading it only half the time.Believe me, I am not blaming the victim. This is almost certainly my fault: for one thing, the number of posts have gone down, in inverse relation to my Twitter activity. (Yes, I am one of those shallow people who think that Twitter is often a worthy substitute for blogging.) At the...

links for 2009-11-10

Next Generation Data Warehouse Platforms (The Data Warehouse Insider)"Many new DBMS systems have sprung into the DW market, many just featuring a single core...

Next Generation Data Warehouse Platforms (The Data Warehouse Insider)"Many new DBMS systems have sprung into the DW market, many just featuring a single core feature (compression, columnar storage, in-memory etc.). For a critical system that sees mixed workloads and lots of data, these point solutions may not be the right thing to base an architecture on." -- Jean-Pierre Dijcks(tags: otn oracle datawarehousing)BPM Promises "Simplicity" In 2010. Is This "Hope We Can Believe...

Podcast Audio of My Oracle OpenWorld Live Interviews

We have just posted audio versions of my Oracle OpenWorld Live "TechCast" chats with Kris Rice (Database Tools), Mike Lehmann (Oracle WebLogic architecture),...

We have just posted audio versions of my Oracle OpenWorld Live "TechCast" chats with Kris Rice (Database Tools), Mike Lehmann (Oracle WebLogic architecture), Bill Dettelback (WebLogic Server for PaaS), and Kuassi Mensah and Chris Jones (the Dynamic Languages Duo). The audio of my chat with James Gosling has been available for a while.Of course, if you are a TechCast subscriber via iTunes, you will download these mp3s automatically.As I have written previously, we are working...

links for 2009-11-07

Why Gaming is the Future of Everything : The AppsLab"Real innovation means you must say no to a lot of things that everyone will tell you are a must have, but...

Why Gaming is the Future of Everything : The AppsLab"Real innovation means you must say no to a lot of things that everyone will tell you are a must have, but if you want inspiration it’s the only way. Find that core of what your application is. The one reason it lives (eg. adding a task, tracking time, sharing a file, whatever). Find it. Honor it. Strip away the noise. And then work like hell to make it FUN." -- Paul Pedrazza(tags: softwaredevelopment gaming usability...

links for 2009-11-06

Video: Oracle Rackspace Cloud ComputingLew Moorman, Jim Curry, and Mark Collier of Rackspace discuss Cloud Computing in this YouTube video.(tags: otn oracle...

Video: Oracle Rackspace Cloud ComputingLew Moorman, Jim Curry, and Mark Collier of Rackspace discuss Cloud Computing in this YouTube video.(tags: otn oracle cloud soa grid applicationgrid)Business Intelligence – more observations from OpenWorld « The JD Edwards AdvisorDavid Andrews explains -- in detail -- what he learned about Oracle Business Intelligence Applications at Oracle OpenWorld.(tags: oracle otn #oow09 BusinessIntelligence bi jdedwards)Java / Oracle SOA blog:...

links for 2009-11-06

Why Gaming is the Future of Everything : The AppsLab"Real innovation means you must say no to a lot of things that everyone will tell you are a must have, but...

Why Gaming is the Future of Everything : The AppsLab"Real innovation means you must say no to a lot of things that everyone will tell you are a must have, but if you want inspiration it’s the only way. Find that core of what your application is. The one reason it lives (eg. adding a task, tracking time, sharing a file, whatever). Find it. Honor it. Strip away the noise. And then work like hell to make it FUN." -- Paul Pedrazza(tags: softwaredevelopment gaming usability...

Arch2Arch Podcast Show Notes: Inside the SOA Manifesto (Part 1)

What happens when you lock a busload of SOA vendors, analysts, practitioners, and journalists in a room in Rotterdam for three days? You get the SOA Manifesto....

What happens when you lock a busload of SOA vendors, analysts, practitioners, and journalists in a room in Rotterdam for three days? You get the SOA Manifesto. But not without a little sturm und drang In the latest OTN Arch2Arch podcast, two of the Manifesto’s authors -- Oracle VP and chief SOA technologist David Chappell and Oracle senior product manager and SOA architect Clemens Utschig-Utschig -- offer an inside look at what went on in that room. Listen to Part 1 (mp3)....

links for 2009-11-05

Video: Oracle Rackspace Cloud ComputingLew Moorman, Jim Curry, and Mark Collier of Rackspace discuss Cloud Computing in this YouTube video.(tags: otn oracle...

Video: Oracle Rackspace Cloud ComputingLew Moorman, Jim Curry, and Mark Collier of Rackspace discuss Cloud Computing in this YouTube video.(tags: otn oracle cloud soa grid applicationgrid)Business Intelligence – more observations from OpenWorld « The JD Edwards AdvisorDavid Andrews explains -- in detail -- what he learned about Oracle Business Intelligence Applications at Oracle OpenWorld.(tags: oracle otn #oow09 BusinessIntelligence bi jdedwards)Java / Oracle SOA blog:...

links for 2009-11-04

SOA Today: SOA Manifesto Value Statement Critique"I commend the community for coming together to vet through definitions, principles, and value statements. ....

SOA Today: SOA Manifesto Value Statement Critique"I commend the community for coming together to vet through definitions, principles, and value statements. . .However, I feel a few key points were missed. . .I truly found the value statement to be confusing, not accurate, and a few that are a lot broader than just SOA." -Oracle ACE Jordan Braunstein(tags: otn oracle soa soamanifesto oracleace)Jumpstart for Oracle Service Bus DevelopmentOracle ACE Ronald van Luttikhuizen teams...