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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...

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...

Time to stop aligning IT with the business?

Bob Evans, writing on InformationWeek's CIO Uncensored Blog, offers this advice to CIOs: Recently uncovered fossil records indicate that the tattered cliché of...

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...

links for 2008-11-14

Blog: State of the SOA UnionAssessing the state of SOA, Bradley D. Brown observes that "we're beyond the early adaptor phase and we're into the mainstream at...

Blog: State of the SOA UnionAssessing 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)

links for 2008-11-13

Blog: SaaS for Techies (Antony Reynolds' Blog)Antony Reynolds describes SaaS as "all about providing a useful function to the customer without the customer...

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)

links for 2008-11-12

Blog: Obama's Vision For A CTO - Political Tech Blog - InformationWeekK. C. Jones reports that "members of President-elect Barack Obama's transition team have...

Blog: Obama's Vision For A CTO - Political Tech Blog - InformationWeekK. 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 OperationsPerren Walker "examines event processing in enterprise operations and how BI, BAM and BPM complement...

Remembering the Future... Maybe

One of the standout presentations at last week's Defrag Conference was Jonathan Yarmis's  Data, Data Everywhere. Yarmis's presentation offered some truly...

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,...

links for 2008-11-11

Blog: Standards Reduce Integration CostsDavid Dorf interviews Richard Halter, enterprise architect for the Association for Retail Technology Standards...

Blog: Standards Reduce Integration CostsDavid 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...

Silicon Valley Code Camp Wrapup

I crashed Silicon Valley Code Camp last Saturday AM (at Foothill College in Los Altos), and I'm glad I did.For one, I always enjoy being on a college campus....

I crashed Silicon Valley Code Camp last Saturday AM (at Foothill College in Los Altos), and I'm glad I did.For one, I always enjoy being on a college campus. You can smell the intellectual curiosity in the air (and sometimes other things too).I caught Shay Shmeltzer's talk on "What's Wrong with JSF", in which he cataloged the advantages of using a framework such as Oracle ADF to shore up JSF's weaknesses:and also spent some time in Ted Young's introduction to Agile...

forums.bea.com and forums.oracle.com are one

We have completed the migration of BEA Dev2Dev and Arch2Arch newsgroup content to forums.oracle.com; the content is now available in the form of a searchable,...

We have completed the migration of BEA Dev2Dev and Arch2Arch newsgroup content to forums.oracle.com; the content is now available in the form of a searchable, read-only archive. Nice!