The 20 most-clicked links as shared via my social networks for the week of March 11-17, 2012.

1. Start Small, Grow Fast: SOA Best Practices article by @biemond, @rluttikhuizen, @demed
   
2. Packt Publishing offers discounts of up to 30% on 60+ Oracle titles
   
3. IT Strategies from Oracle; Three Recipes for Oracle Service Bus 11g ; Stir Up Some SOA
   
4. Oracle Cloud Conference: dates and locations worldwide
   
5. Applications Architecture | Roy Hunter and Brian Rasmussen
   
6. How Strategic is IT? - Assessing Strategic Value | Al Kiessel
   
7. White Paper: An Architect’s Guide to Big Data | Dr. Helen Sun, Peter Heller
   
8. Getting Started with Oracle Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 2 | Lenz Grimmer
   
9. Great Solaris 10 features paving the way to Solaris 11 | Karoly Vegh
   
10. Who the Linux Developer Met on His Way to St. Ives | Rick Ramsey
    
11. Peripheral Responsibilities Required for Large IDM Build Outs (Including Fusion Apps) | Brian Eidelman
    
12. IOUG Real World Performance Tour, w/Tom Kyte, Andrew Holdsworth, Graham Wood
    
13. Configure IPoIB on Solaris 10 branded zone | Leo Yuen
    
14. Oracle OpenWorld 2012 Call for Papers
    
15. Use Case Assumptions versus Pre-Conditions | Dave Burke
    
16. Handling Custom XML documents in Oracle B2B | @Biemond
    
17. Building a Coherence Cluster with Multiple Application Servers | Rene van Wijk
    
18. XMLA vs BAPI | Sunil S. Ranka
    
19. The Java EE 6 Example - Running Galleria on WebLogic 12 - Part 3 | @MyFear
    
20. Public Sector Architecture | @jeremy_forman, @hamzajahangir
    

Thought for the Day

"The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it."
—Anonymous