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BEA Dev2Dev/Arch2Arch Status and Migration Update

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...

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...

Architectural tools

Comparisons between physical architecture and digital architecture are inevitable. But in the first installment of a promised series of posts on the Approach...

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...

Architecture: Getting from as-is to to-be

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:...

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...

Why Online Communities Fail

Just in time for the Enterprise 2.0 Boot Camp in a couple weeks, today WSJ Online subscribers will find a great Business Technology blog post entitled "Why Most...

Just in time for the Enterprise 2.0 Boot Camp in a couple weeks, today WSJ Online subscribers will find a great Business Technology blog post entitled "Why Most Online Communities Fail". The author, Ben Worthen, hits the nail squarely on its head:Businesses launching online communities repeat a series of blunders. First, they have a tendency to get seduced by bells and whistles and blow their online-community budget on technology...(They should) spend resources identifying...

SOA Governance@work

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...

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

Oracle OpenWorld 2008: Community Preview

Can it be possible that Oracle OpenWorld is just 2 months away? Apparently so.As is our custom, we have built out a preview page in the OTN portal that offers...

Can it be possible that Oracle OpenWorld is just 2 months away? Apparently so.As is our custom, we have built out a preview page in the OTN portal that offers all kinds of useful info, such as the fact that beer will once again be available in the OTN Lounge in the afternoon (hey, so it really IS a "lounge"!).You'll also find a rundown of the Oracle OpenWorld Unconference, the expected swag list for OTN Lounge visitors, etc.Most important, there will be several "lounges" at...

Blogging across time

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...

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...

Enterprise 2.0 Boot Camp

This is something you'll want to know: Registration is now open for the Enterprise 2.0 Boot Camp on July 28 in Redwood Shores.Most of you would agree, I'm sure,...

This is something you'll want to know: Registration is now open for the Enterprise 2.0 Boot Camp on July 28 in Redwood Shores.Most of you would agree, I'm sure, that the "soft" issues pertaining to deployment/use of Web 2.0 tools and technologies in the enterprise ("Enterprise 2.0" for short) - cultural change, privacy, best practices, internal collaboration - are top of mind right now. What company worth its salt has *not* considered, or begun to consider, the organizational...

SOA adoption: Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug

SearchSOA.com editor-in-chief Michael  Meehan blogs on recent Burton Group research on SOA adoption: According to Burton Group vice president and research...

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 down...