Miko Matsumura

The Gartner Hype cycle research shows Cloud Computing as being on the peak of expectations… the very top of the hype bubble roller coaster. Vendors are looking for something to sell, and the consolidation of the data center, reducing operational cost and economy of scale are as co... (more)

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... (more)

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 g... (more)

Joe Mckendrick has been blogging about Enterprise SOA falling out of favor. I’ll be the first person to admit that Enterprise SOA is hard. Why is it hard? Because it is at the heart of the topic of SOA. First of all lets remind ourselves what SOA is (from the OASIS SOA RM def... (more)

In planning and building SOA, concrete examples often are useful: SOA designers, vendors and users can reference a wealth of abstract guidelines, descriptions of functional layers and sets of specific standards, or software that fulfill SOA requirements. However, often there is a... (more)