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SOA Governance is a matter of balance

Part of the SOA Governance @ Work series Writing in Wanted: new term for SOA ‘governance’, Joe McKendrick continues a blogosphere conversation about labeling...

Part of the SOA Governance @ Work series Writing in Wanted: new term for SOA ‘governance’, Joe McKendrick continues a blogosphere conversation about labeling SOA governance, and about the balance between SOA governance and agility. (See the posts by  David Linthicum, Michael Meehan, Dan Foody, and Todd Biske.) Joe says: I’ve even heard of cases where SOA governance itself has tended to go too far, strangling the innovation that service orientation and loose coupling is...

An ElePHPant Never Forgets

The PHP-heads among you who intend to register for the 2008 PHP Quebec Conference in March will enjoy a piece of swag that is sure to become legendary: The...

The PHP-heads among you who intend to register for the 2008 PHP Quebec Conference in March will enjoy a piece of swag that is sure to become legendary: The Oracle elePHPant.You can't say we never contribute to the community, now.All kidding aside, this conference is a great place to catch up about Oracle Database 11g features that help PHP apps scale considerably better, most notably DRCP. Oracle's Kuassi Mensah will be keynoting on that topic.You can also ask Kuassi (and...

Getting the governance you want

In  a recent post Todd Biske offers some clear thinking on the perception of SOA governance as agility-killing oppression: I won’t argue that most people have a...

In  a recent post Todd Biske offers some clear thinking on the perception of SOA governance as agility-killing oppression: I won’t argue that most people have a very negative reaction to the term, but there’s a key point that missing in the discussion. Governance is about the people, policies, and processes put in place to obtain desired behaviors. Governance does not have to be about command and control. If your desired behavior is complete freedom to try anything and...

Join the OTN Group in Oracle Mix

With a membership of 150, the Oracle Technology Network Group within Oracle Mix has a rather high ceiling - which is to say, we need a lot more OTN members in...

With a membership of 150, the Oracle Technology Network Group within Oracle Mix has a rather high ceiling - which is to say, we need a lot more OTN members in our group!I'll be posting questions and ideas there in increasing frequency because Mix is such a good tool for networking and interaction. I've dabbled in Facebook as well, but the spam level there is just rising too high for me now. So please, take a moment to join the OTN group on Mix!

How about "Governance time?"

In his Real World SOA post, Defining SOA Governance, Dave Linthicum observes that within the broader topic of SOA governance, "there are really two flavors...

In his Real World SOA post, Defining SOA Governance, Dave Linthicum observes that within the broader topic of SOA governance, "there are really two flavors emerging: Design time and runtime." "It's important to understand the differences," Dave writes, "and that you may indeed need two SOA governance products, at the end of the day." Flavors of SOA governance? It's an interesting observation, and more than a little scary. The implication is that design time and runtime are...

OracleCommunity.net on Ning

Eddie Awad rides again: Eddie has crafted a new Ning-based online Oracle community. I'm starting to have trouble keeping track of these things.

Eddie Awad rides again: Eddie has crafted a new Ning-based online Oracle community. I'm starting to have trouble keeping track of these things.

Marketing 2.0 Leaders Summit: Wrapup

Well, I must apologize about my utter failure to communicate during thepast two days. I underestimated my workload as a facilitator, inaddition to the fact that...

Well, I must apologize about my utter failure to communicate during thepast two days. I underestimated my workload as a facilitator, inaddition to the fact that the wifi was absolutely horrendous - even when I had somedowntime, I was unable to get online.Proud to saythat the working group that AppsLab Jake and I facilitated came out ontop in the "gaming" dimension of the summit (but that particular partof the process was purely tactical - a means of keeping peopleinvolved)....

Survey Says... SOA Governance is Happening

Part of the SOA Governance @ Work Series Late last year, at an SOA-oriented IT industry event held in Las Vegas, visitors to the BEA booth were asked to fill...

Part of the SOA Governance @ Work Series Late last year, at an SOA-oriented IT industry event held in Las Vegas, visitors to the BEA booth were asked to fill out a short survey on how their respective companies address SOA governance.  While thoroughly unscientific, this informal survey offered a glimpse into: What's happening with SOA Governance out in the real world, and... What happens to the already horrible handwriting of IT people when they are in a city that, by law,...

Oracle Marketing 2.0 Leader Summit: First Day

I apologize not providing frequent updates; being a facilitator is a lot of work and the wifi onsite is not so good.Day 1 has been extremely informative; it got...

I apologize not providing frequent updates; being a facilitator is a lot of work and the wifi onsite is not so good.Day 1 has been extremely informative; it got off to a spicy start with a proposal from AppsLab Jake (also a facilitator) to merge our two groups (which we accepted). How Oracle of us! An immediate effect on the marketplace via M&A.I'm not going to take you through every step of the process since then - TMI anyway - but suffice it to say that many common threads...