Miko Matsumura Enterprise Software Executive Technologist

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-11

I bought skype credit and it set off not one but two different fraud detection systems at my bank. Geesh. # Q: Should "Private Cloud" be considered Cloud? A: Don't know, do you consider Monopoly Money to be Money? http://bit.ly/b76jxk # Spirit air starts charging for CARRY ON bags http://bit.ly/9mNB08 it's a terrible trend Bad idea... are you listening @unitedairlines # I reserved an iPad today. Buying for a colleague in Shanghai. Don't really want one myself......

Oracle Snorkel One Ring to Rule Them All

Today, Chuck Phillips, president of Oracle said that Oracle was committed to provide “A Single Stack of Technology to Simplify Enterprise IT”. I fundamentally question this premise. In order for a “Single Stack” to successfully simplify IT, Enterprise Software practitioners must commit their entire Enterprise Architecture to a single vendor, namely Oracle. Recall that architecture is a *design* discipline. The absolute underpinnings of design is *intention*. This is a...

Oracle 11g Fusion Middleware LiveBlogging and News Analysis

Stand by for Oracle Fusion 11g Middleware Launch Liveblogging and analysis from SOA Center. Java is the new SQL We’re on a code level orange this morning as buzz on the networks is up. Despite Oracle’s news embargo, we’re already picking up chatter that one of the big ticket items from the Oracle Fusion Middleware launch is Tera-scale Java Object cacheing. This is a great technology trend and great thinking. While a few startup companies have attacked the so-called...

Sun Oracle Snorkel CEO Email makes me sick

Jeremy Geelan posted Jonathan Schwartz’s email to all Sun employees announcing the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle. Frankly this email makes me very angry. Please consider that analysts are responding to Oracle’s profitability plan: Oracle expects the Sun deal to contribute $1.5 billion toward its earnings next year and $2 billion in the second year of the acquisition, making it “more profitable in per-share contribution in the first year than we had planned for...

Sun Oracle –”Snorkel” stretches limits of credulity

Snorkel will be a bloody mess! Oracle has no systems experience. What are the possible drivers for a SNORKEL (Sun Oracle)? * Oracle Hardware? Oracle is claiming that highly specialized and tuned hardware can turn in up to 100x performance. So why not mash up Sun systems and Oracle to extend the Oracle appliance concept, already announced in partnership with HP. >>my comment is this is not enough. With Oracle’s lack of experience in systems, this will be exceedingly hard for...