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"There is a perversion in the IT standards landscape that makes it impossible for premature standardization *not* to happen," says William Vambenepe. 

@myfear: iPad for Business? About the why … Oracle ACE Director Markus Eisele examines the iPad's impact on business IT.  (tags: oracle oracleace ipad) William Vambenepe: The Tragedy of the Commons in Cloud standards "There is a perversion in the IT standards landscape that makes it impossible for premature standardization *not* to happen," says William [...]

I wasn’t at the OSCON Cloud Summit this past week, but I’ve spent some time over the weekend trying to collect the good bits. Via Twitter, I had heard echos of an interesting debate on Cloud standards between Sam Johnston and Benjamin Black. Today I got to see Benjamin’s slides and read reports from two [...]

Terrance Wampler, VP for Oracle’s E-Business Suite Financials Product Strategy talks with Fred about the architectural changes in the R12 release as well as how EBS R12 Financials provides simplification, standardization, and process efficiencies for customers.

Terrance Wampler, VP for Oracle’s E-Business Suite Financials Product Strategy talks with Fred about the architectural changes in the R12 release as well as how EBS R12 Financials provides simplification, standardization, and process efficiencies for customers. Link to the original site

SaaS ISVs do face a choice these days of deploying their software on the cloud – Public or Private. Private Cloud is your infrastructure behind a firewall. The infrastructure can reside in your data center or at a hoster like Savvis. Public Cloud is services like AWS which does not require you to set up [...]

This entry is a continuation of my quest for understanding and knowledge of the hot topics in the Payments arena as a new Strategist for that module.  Please see the first part below:  A Primer on SEPA.   Why is SEPA important? SEPA�s adoption means fewer charges on transactions and purchases in euros. On the [...]

Remember 2006? Things were starting to fall into place for IT management integration and automation: SDD was already on its way to cleanly describe/package/manage the lifecycle of simple and composite applications alike, the first version of SML came out to capture all the relevant constraints of complex and composite systems and open the door to [...]

Have you developed “Cloud API fatigue” from seeing too many IaaS “Cloud APIs” lately? Are you starting to wonder how many different ways there can possibly be to launch a virtual machine via an HTTP POST? Are you wondering why everybody else seems to equate Cloud computing with on-demand server instances? If yes, then CDMI [...]

In an earlier post, I argued for standardization of some basic REST-inspired mechanisms for the narrow goal of supporting control interfaces for different forms of Cloud Computing. As I was doing so, I noticed the first report of something called REST-*, introduced by RedHat’s Mark Little and I ended my post by wondering whether we [...]