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Oracle Open World Return Trip Adventure

October 22nd, 2009 by Jon Davis • No Comments »

While returning from the Oracle Open World conference in San Francisco, Steve Steinheimer and I had a rather long delay in the SF airport.  During this time we had the unexpected pleasure of meeting Megan Munsell who works for a non profit organization called United World Colleges (UWC).  Ms. Munsell was on her way to an annual board meeting in Vancouver.  What Steve and I learned is that UWC’s mission is to promote world peace and a sustainable future.  While that sounds like a goal that most everyone would embrace, they have a specific strategy for trying to achieve this lofty goal.  That strategy is to build schools around the globe and fill the schools with students from all races, religions, cultures, and economic status.  The idea is that the children will discover that they are actually more alike than different once they get to know each other, and that will lead to dialog rather than armed conflict to resolve problems in the future.

To quote from the UWC web site “The first UWC – UWC of the Atlantic – opened in 1962 and today there are thirteen United World Colleges across five continents. Almost 40,000 students from over 180 countries have studied at UWC and there are over 120 National Committees. In the turbulent world of the 21st century, UWC’s aims and objectives are as relevant today as they were in 1962 – perhaps even more so.”

I would like to personally wish Ms. Munsell and UWC the best of luck in obtaining their goal.

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So Your Manager Wouldn’t Spring for Oracle Open World This Year?

October 14th, 2009 by Robert McMillen • No Comments »

You wanted to be here but it’s another year of budget cuts.  Sure the executives are still flying first class all over the country but you are stuck at home again.  I know it’s a bummer but there is a tiny silver lining for those who are unable to attend.  You can still get access to those sessions you wanted to see.

Unlike those who attended you won’t have sore feet and lack of feeling in your posterior.  And you won’t be off work for scheduled back surgery to repair your ruptured disc caused by carrying around all of the swag during the day.  Even better, you get to avoid all of the boring sessions where the presenter laboriously reads the same slides which were shown previously in six other sessions.  Seriously, you should count your blessings for not being subjected to these problems.

Here’s your consolation prize:

Oracle is releasing all 1800+ conference sessions, plus the keynotes for only $245.  If someone from your organization did attend, they can access the same content for free. The sessions will be available as downloadable mp3′s.  Slides will be available in Powerpoint format.

More information is available at the links below.

You can also visit the official Oracle OpenWorld Web site for more information, to purchase, or for access.

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JRockit VE Offers JVM Without Requiring an Operating System

October 14th, 2009 by Robert McMillen • No Comments »

Oracle will be releasing in 2010 several new products for their WebLogic Suite. One of these will be JRockit VE (JRVE). JRVE will be a bare-metal install not requiring an underlying operating system.

Oracle believes they can coax significant performance gains for the JRockit JVM by removing the O/S barrier. Additional benefits include simplified administration, improved security and a single configuration file for setup.

For now JRVE is not expected to be a stand-alone product and will be used in support of the new Weblogic Suite Virtual Edition expected in 2010.

Some interesting specifications for JRVE versus a typical Linux implementation:

  • 10 Commands
  • 100 Parameters
  • 1 Administrative Tool
  • 1 second Boot Time
  • 2MB (not GB) Memory Requirement
  • No Shell support

With JRVE, the layers on the technology stack will shrink to just the JVM and the Application.  This is distinctly less than many Java environments that require the O/S, JVM, App Server, SOA and then the Application on top of it.

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This Will Float Your Boat

October 13th, 2009 by Robert McMillen • No Comments »

Today in San Francisco we had the first of what is supposed to be two days of rain.  It started early and continued all day.  If everything at Open World was in a single building this would be a non-issue but OOW is so big that it is spread across several city blocks.

The fun started early when we attempted to catch the shuttle from our hotel to OOW.  We are staying about 5 blocks away so we decided to not walk and enjoy a nice dry ride.  So did everyone else it appears.  After watching two Greyhound shuttle buses go by because they were already full we decided to catch a cab instead.  That turned out to be interesting because our cab was a new Toyota Prius.

I’ve not ridden in a Prius before and this was an interesting introduction.  As a cab, it is a bit small but is fits the bill for getting in and out of the tight traffic spaces that exist in downtown San Francisco.  Plus I’m guessing it was getting great gas mileage along the way.

Once we arrived I managed to purchase a very shoddily made umbrella from a street vendor for $5.  Later in the day I passed him by again and was pleased to see that the price had risen to $10.  I was tempted to set up shop next door and sell my slightly used model for $7 and pocket my gain.  Unfortunately I still needed the umbrella because I was to walk about 5 blocks between the various OOW venues during the day.

I had noticed yesterday that this very expensive and very cool catamaran is sitting out in front of one of the venues.  If the rain continues at the current pace I’m planning to use it to escape the downtown area.  Until then, rain drops keep falling on my head…

Oracle Catamaran

Oracle and BMS Catamaran

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Oracle BPM 11g Preview at Oracle Open World 2009

October 13th, 2009 by Mark Peterson • 4 Comments »

I think the wait was worth it. After BEA’s AquaLogic BPM (formerly Fuego) was purchased by Oracle, the product became part of the Oracle Fusion Middleware suite. But instead of being in the lime-light of Fusion, for the past year it was hardly mentioned. The Marketing story focused on SOA, Tuxedo, WebCenter and WebLogic. For BPM pure-plays, BPM has its own story, a good story; one with business centered not IT centered values.

Well there it is! It re-appeared in a General Session at Oracle Open World 2009 with all the other Fusion Middleware products. The product development team must have been busy. They took Aqualogic BPM apart and re-assemble it with more features and benefits for the business than ever before. Eduardo Chiocconi and Mariano Benitez demonstrated the new version of BPM at the Moscone West Exhibit hall. The product has been integrated with JDeveloper and Enterprise Manager. It is part of the Fusion middleware product suite and seems to have more capability than before.

For businesses, the need for a rich user-experience has been achieved. The BPM studio is integrated with the ADF development environment; a JSF-based technology. You can develop UIs from studio or import ADF projects and use them in interactive BPM activities. This segmentation of the business process from the UI should also allow the UI to take advantage of externally developed UIs; something that was lacking before in BPM. This segmentation may make it easier to integrate legacy UI applications, perhaps even UIs not based in ADF.

BPM 11g has also improved on the type of roles available for activities. You can now specify interactive tiers for approval or review activities. For instance, if the CFO needs to approve purchases over $100,000, then the work-item can be escalated without coding specialized escalation processes to route the purchase orders based on these rules. These rules of who and when people need to review or approve work can change. BPM now handles this without the need for re-writing and re-deploying the new processes. An administrator can simple re-configure the user-roles.

BPM 11g has many other features as well. It has a state-of-the-art rules engine. It can handle most business rules and conditional requirements without the need to integrate third-party rules engines. It has a new milestone activity switch to enhance business activity monitoring and instance processing by the workspace. It also has integrated Oracle BAM to enhance the ability to obtain information about the business process.

BPM 11g adds these features on top of the 10g BPM feature set, so the return for implementing BPM is improved. I was only able to get a glimpse of the new Oracle BPM 11g, but from this glimpse I am excited about the possibilities. Oracle 11g will not be available for download until Feb 2010. I am looking forward to getting my hands on the new version and feel at this time, the wait will be worth it.

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Running into Enterprise 2.0 at Oracle Open World 2009

October 12th, 2009 by Mark Peterson • No Comments »

If social computing is Enterprise 2.0 then Enterprise 2.0 is here, it’s exciting and it’s everywhere. There’s no place more at the center of Enterprise 2.0 than where we are here at Oracle Open World 2009.
Oracle Open World 2009, started officially this week. The keynotes speeches where well attended. Scott McNealy and Larry Ellison discussed the pending acquisition of Sun by Oracle and how software and hardware will come together in more power ways than ever before-a definite component of Enterprise 2.0. Likewise, Andrew McAffee (@amcaffe), who coined the term Enterprise 2.0 told us how Enterprise 2.0 will affect our lives. It’s so profound we can’t keep from running into it, which is precisely what I did. I ran right into it at Oracle Open World.

About 15 people started Oracle Open World by running a 5K fun run. The very informal event (and hopefully annual event) was put on by Judson Althoff. What better way to illustrate the power of Enterprise 2.0, but by talking about how many of us came upon this fun run.  For those who found it on the Oracle web-site and told me about it, thank you. I found the link on Twitter. I used the tag #ooW09, added “fun run” and there it was. We are to meet at the corner of 5th and Howard at 7:00AM on Monday.

This is a great example of what McAffee mentioned that there is structure to the internet and wisdom in the crowd. The internet is not like a library with “books on the ground”. It has structure and Google, Face-book, and Twitter contain some of the technologies that help create the structure.

What better way to celebrate being here, being part of Oracle Open World, by meeting people with some very specific desires (like running a 5K at 7:00AM) and finding them here at the center of Enterprise 2.0.

I met men and woman from all over the world; from the UK and South Africa; and organizers like Judson Althoff – just to name a few. The event was very informal, extremely successful, and no one got hit by a bus! (Oops) Judson (organizer and safety marshal) was kind enough to yell “clear”  or “NOT CLEAR”,  while we ran through the intersections together. (Near misses don’t count.)

Judson Althoff Kicking of Oracle Open World First Annual 5K Fun Run

Judson Althoff Kicking of First Annual Oracle Open World Fun Run

I’m excited about whats to come at Oracle Open World and so should we all. We’re here in the center of Enterprise 2.0 with more good things to come.

For those who ran with me, I was the guy who looked like the running-robber geek with lime-green water bottles. You can read more about me on my running blog at http://health-and-wellbeing.blogspot.com/

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Oracle 11g Strategies for BPM: A Step in the Right Direction?

October 9th, 2009 by Mark Peterson • No Comments »

With Oracle Open World 2009 around the corner, it will be interesting to see how the BPM community reacts to the changes being offered. I have found the story around Oracle Fusion a bit confusing, especially how it plays in BPM solution space. The BPM pure plays, like AquaLogic and Lambardi had a clear vision and strategy. Now that Oracle has acquired Aqualogic (formerly Fuego) BPM, Oracle should have a strong hold on this market. Without some course correction on Oracles part, I feel the BPM strategy may get blurred. The jury is still out. I am hopeful but concerned.

More to come.

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