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I stumbled across more detail from Rich Manalang regarding the Oracle Mix deployment on JRuby and the Oracle Application Server. I orginally wrote a post about this after meeting Rich and Jake at Oracle World last week. Its more than a little interesting, but not surprising or atypical, that finding production hardware consumed so much […]

Success with Enterprise SOA depends on the ability to develop and drive governance models that align business objectives with IT strategy. Given that many organizations struggle with operating IT in a way achieves business capability that extends beyond pure cost containment and reactionary service fulfillment, success with SOA should be enhanced by prior success with […]

I was in the audience when Jonathan invited Michael on stage to announce an OEM agreement between Dell and Sun.

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Oracle Mix may be the first production deployment of JRuby, and is certainly the first deployment of JRuby in an Oracle Application Server. I got a chance to meet and talk with Rich Manalang and Jake Kuramoto who have been working on getting the site up. It took a mere two weeks to put the […]

At the Oracle Open World keynote, Larry Ellison reminisced about 30 years of Oracle history. I have never seen him speak before, and Larry was nothing like I expected. He was disarmingly frank about Oracle’s, hapless early days, and frequently reinforced a picture of Oracle as a company of geeks, growing over the years to learn […]

Vladis’s Blog has just posted an entry on good and bad reasons to virtualize titled “Virtualisation, comfortable or tight trousers“. I’d like to elaborate on the subject a bit. Vladis mentions several important drivers supported by measurable, direct IT operational cost reductions, typically enabled by:

More efficient use of the existing server footprint through higher utilization, More […]

I’m going to Oracle Open World this year. This will be the first time for me. I will be in the Sun booth a bit to pay my dues, but also taking some training. I’m a long time Oracle user, my first experience was with Oracle 5, then Oracle 6 on a VAX Cluster. Those […]

I’ve joined the Open Solaris Mentoring Project. Next step: figure out how to reach out to students in the schools and univsersities in the Denver area. I’m thinking weekend camps with tutorials and so forth might be nice. I’m thinking a good outreach might also start with seeing if there is a Soalris user group […]

In my recent post Virtualization and Infrastructure Modeling I neglected to mention SysML. SysML is a set of specifications for extending the UML for systems engineering disciplines, described by the OMG as “… a general-purpose graphical modeling language for specifying, analyzing, designing, and verifying complex systems that may include hardware, software, information, personnel, procedures, and […]

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