Most recent Arch2Arch articles and blogs from our Enterprise Social Computing Center. Copyright BEA Systems, Inc. http://dev2dev.bea.com/arch2arch/entsocialcomputing/ 2008-06-06T12:15:04-08:00 BEA's Dev2Dev no BEA's Dev2Dev dev2deveditorial@bea.com http://dev2dev.bea.com/blog/skip/archive/2008/06/total_world_dom.html

It’s been nearly 10 years since BEA acquired WebLogic, Inc., and now BEA itself has been acquired by Oracle.? WebLogic had approximately 95 employees on the day we were acquired, and BEA seemed almost impossibly huge with over 1000 employees at the time? At first it wasn’t clear what was...

Skip Sauls 2008-06-06T12:15:04-08:00 http://dev2dev.bea.com/blog/brhubart/archive/2008/06/bea_oracle_prod.html

There is a great deal of interest in the the D2D/A2A community and elsewhere about where and how BEA products will fit into Oracle's strategy. This just-announced Webcast will provide the information everyone is after:? Join Oracle executives Charles Phillips, President, and Thomas Kurian, Senior Vice President, for an informative...

Bob Rhubart 2008-06-02T11:15:03-08:00 http://dev2dev.bea.com/blog/brhubart/archive/2008/05/migrating_blog.html

If you're a D2D/A2A blogger and you've been using Windows Live Writer to compose and manage your posts, migrating old posts to a new blog can be a heck of a lot easier than, say, removing your own tonsils. This is especially useful if other means of migration are unavailable....

Bob Rhubart 2008-05-30T13:45:04-08:00 http://dev2dev.bea.com/blog/brhubart/archive/2008/05/oracle_tweeters.html

Do you Tweet?? That is, do you use Twitter? If so, and if you're interested in following the conversation among others tweeting about all things Oracle (and beyond), you should check out the Oracle Tweeters page on the Oracle Wiki: This page is meant to be as complete a list...

Bob Rhubart 2008-05-30T13:15:04-08:00 http://dev2dev.bea.com/blog/plaird/archive/2008/05/action_required.html

As many of you know, BEA was acquired by Oracle. The good news: I am staying on board and look forward to my new role with the Oracle team. The bad news: the BEA dev2dev blogging site will be shut down shortly. Therefore, if you want to keep up with my posts on SaaS, Cloud Computing, mashups, portals, REST APIs, Greasemonkey, and other things you will need to update your RSS Reader. Otherwise, I am afraid, our relationship will end. Please help me by doing the following: Change your RSS reader to look for my feed here: http://peterlaird.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default Do NOT create any new inbound links to dev2dev, please inbound to my blogspot account If you have created any inbound links to my blog in the past to dev2dev, please update to point to the new blog. I migrated all of my old entries. Thanks!

Peter Laird 2008-05-29T03:45:03-08:00 http://dev2dev.bea.com/blog/plaird/archive/2008/05/saas_soup_navig.html

Ever wonder what all the "aaS" acronyms mean? Do you want to understand how they relate to each other? This blog entry will help. I have created a map of many of the "as a Service" terms you will see in IT and have grouped them according to category. I have also provided an explanation and links for further reading for each so you can quickly come up to speed on all. I put this together because I am working on the second edition of a visual map of the SaaS, PaaS, and Cloud Computing industries that I released last month. In order to make progress on that map, I found I needed to have a better understanding of all of the common categories in the "as a Service" market. The map in this blog entry has a different focus - instead of mapping out industry players I am mapping out industry terminology. Both maps complement each other.

Peter Laird 2008-05-29T03:45:03-08:00 http://dev2dev.bea.com/blog/arch2archeditor/archive/2008/05/beaparticipate08.html

BEA.Participate.08 is now underway, in Chicago, Illinois. The conference sessions and keynotes get started Tuesday morning, and run through Thursday morning. If you aren't able to attend, there are still ways to follow the activity. The BEA.Participate.08 Blog is a good starting point.

Kevin Farnham 2008-05-13T20:45:07-08:00 http://dev2dev.bea.com/blog/plaird/archive/2008/05/twitter_microfe.html

Most of you have probably seen Clay Shirky's material on the great Cognitive Surplus - the free time that everyone wastes by watching TV. Awesome stuff, but if you are trying to keep up with all the activity in the SaaS, PaaS and Cloud industries by definition you have no Cognitive Surplus. We are in information overload. Subscribing to specific feeds or Google Alerts can help isolate the signal from the noise, but sometimes even that can be challenging. Let me propose a solution: I have created a microfeed for this space on Twitter. This blog discusses how you can subscribe to this feed and stay in touch with the news in a very lightweight way.

Peter Laird 2008-05-08T00:15:03-08:00 http://dev2dev.bea.com/blog/arch2archeditor/archive/2008/05/beaparticipate0.html

People in the Arch2Arch and Dev2Dev communities have been talking about BEA.Participate.08 for months. Now, it's about to happen (next week, May 12-15, in Chicago, Illinois). BEA.Participate is "a celebration of innovation...

Kevin Farnham 2008-05-07T08:15:03-08:00 http://dev2dev.bea.com/blog/arch2archeditor/archive/2008/04/web_20_technolo.html

This week's Arch2Arch blog by Peter Laird has got me thinking about Twitter and, in general, Web 2.0 and business. Twitter is the social networking "platform" that lets people post messages of up to 140 characters in length. People can subscribe to other people's Twitter feeds... It's a way to spread news fast -- whether the news is trivial or important.

Kevin Farnham 2008-04-30T07:15:03-08:00 http://dev2dev.bea.com/blog/plaird/archive/2008/04/mining_twitter.html

One BEA customer recently posted on Twitter: "hating weblogic". Another said: "F@#% you weblogic for not handling HTTP 500 errors properly." Whether you personally participate in one of the numerous internet social platforms or not, some of your customers are out there. WebLogic isn't the only brand being discussed - name the brand and there are customers voicing their opinions on these platforms. This blog entry focuses on Twitter, and shows how you can mine Twitter for feedback on your brand using a tool called TwitterScan. Because of the very informal nature of Twitter, and it's low barrier to participate, it is a good channel of candid opinions on your brand. Companies like Comcast have already used TwitterScan to identify and remedy customer relationship problems in a highly proactive manner. How is your brand perceived on Twitter?

Peter Laird 2008-04-27T12:45:04-08:00 http://dev2dev.bea.com/blog/brhubart/archive/2008/03/be_the_purple_n.html

In an article in the March 10, 2008 edition of the Wall Street Journal, (How to Tap IT's Hidden Potential) authors Amit Basu and Chip Jarnagin describe how .

Bob Rhubart 2008-03-26T15:45:03-08:00 http://dev2dev.bea.com/blog/arch2archeditor/archive/2008/03/soa_reference_a.html

Arch2Arch enhancements + many articles/white papers on SOA Reference Architecture; SOA Integration Blueprints; Gartner Magic Quadrant Reports for Portals & Social Software and AquaLogic Enterprise Security Performance!

Jon Mountjoy 2008-03-13T06:15:04-08:00 http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/a/2008/03/state-of-portal-market.html

<a href='http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/a/2008/03/state-of-portal-market.html'><img src='http://dev2dev.bea.com/images/tiles/portal_market.gif' width='80px' height='60px' alt='tile image' align='left' border='0' style='padding-right:5px;' /></a>CIOs are looking at portals for consolidating applications and introducing Web 2.0 capabilities. See for yourself: BEA Systems' annual report on the enterprise portal market includes survey data on deployment and adoption from more than 540 BEA portal customers, plus a synthesis of more than 100 analyst reports and industry articles.

BEA's Dev2Dev 2008-03-12T06:45:10-08:00 http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/a/2008/03/portals-and-social-software.html

<a href='http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/a/2008/03/portals-and-social-software.html'><img src='http://dev2dev.bea.com/images/tiles/portal_market.gif' width='80px' height='60px' alt='tile image' align='left' border='0' style='padding-right:5px;' /></a>Two Gartner Magic Quadrant Reports are now available for download: "Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portal Products, 2007" and "Magic Quadrant for Team Collaboration and Social Software, 2007".

BEA's Dev2Dev 2008-03-12T06:45:10-08:00