You could wonder? What is happening in the Oracle halls after the acquisition of Sun and Java? I must admit that as an MSFT .netter I haven’t been following the Java community for a veeeery long time, so I am not really sure how “healthy” it is, but my general understanding has been that Java and the platform has been moving more and more towards the Open Source, GPL licensing policy.

I remember reading something about fears for discontinuity of Java from Oracle, but this is not likely. Oracle is most certainly trying to figure out how to make money out of Java. Suing Google is one way of making money out of Java.  What could be another way is to make Android go away leaving only one major java based mobile phone operating system left, Research In Motion (RIM) and the Blackberry.

Stephen Jannise, an ERP market analyst at Manufacturing Software Advice
has been following Oracle and had a close look at Oracle’s Mergers and Acquisitions. One of the companies he has nominated for merge/acquisition is in fact RIM, so could this be the angle? Push out competition, acquire RIM and then “own” the whole java developer community? Continue Reading

Just came across an article in Mashable about Oracle suing Google over copyright infringement in the Android operating system. What are Oracle thinking???? Android is THE single best thing that has happend to  Java since AWT!

Claiming that Android competes with Java as “an operating system software platform for cellular telephones and other mobile devices” and that the Android stack employs Java apps running on a Java-based framework, Oracle says that Android and the Android SDK infringe on its patents, and it wants to see some cash for its unwitting involvement in the mobile OS’s success.

Oracle: Dont be stupid! don’t becom the next SCO – there is noting to gain from this whatsoever. Continue Reading

At work we are in the process of evaluating enterprise mobility platforms.  An unified platform that help make enterprise data available to mobile devices or computers.  When i evaluate candidates begin to have a look at the integration engine. How will the integration engine help me get hold of the data i require. At a minimum the engine must have connectors to the most common back-end systems like SAP, Dynamics, Agresso, Siebel and/or Oracle and also provide ways of more generic  connectors through web services, XML etc. If you don´t have this; you´ve failed!

If you got step one – integration, you´ve come a very long way! You now need to make sure that the system is capable og keeping the flow of data to and from the devices. Handle distribution of software and updates, Manage the devices within the enterprise and keep it secure in an integrated manner.  Oh, software..That is important! The software  must be possible to develop without too much of a hassle. Don´t constrain the possibilities within an already constrained mobile platform (ie javaME or .NET Compact Framework). Don´t force the look and feel.

A few days ago i picked up a tweet by Rob Tiffany at Microsoft, he blogged about Microsoft MEAP – Mobile Enerprise Application Platform. MEAP is a platform where you design toghether a set of well known Microsoft technologies, and together they make up a unified mobile application platform. Continue Reading

It´s funny… In March 09 i wrote about a “work person” exiting the elevator saying that “Scrum doesn´t work on large scale Oracle projects“. Now, 9 month later i found myself about to try just that.

For most of this fall i have been working as the lead architect for a large (I call it large when it is designed to handle 45 000 000 transactions/week) national tracking system for the food industry in Norway based on the EPC IS standard. We evaluated the requirements and landed on Oracle as a technology partner.

After beating IBM in a close head2head BID race for the  system we ´re now ready to begin the project initialization process and we have through the whole process had the goal to use scrum as project methodology. We have put together a great team of highly skilled engineers and developers and we know that there are two fixed factors, price and project end date. This is going to be fun! Continue Reading

That was the statement i heard going down the escalator at work earlier this week.

“Scrum may be good for some things, but for large scale Oracle development projects, it doesn’t work…”

And I was like.. wtf???.. I have been thinking about this statement for a few days now and I still wonder why shouldn’t scrum work in large scale Oracle projects? anyone got a clue? Continue Reading