Some think that expensive third-party cluster systems are necessary when it comes to protecting a system with an Active/Passive architecture with failover capabilities. Not true, according to Gilles Haro.

Part 9 of Atul's step by step guide to the installation of Oracle Identity Management.

Amis Technology's Michel Schildmeijer shares a process he found for enabling / disabling a proxy service within Oracle Service Bus 11g with WLST (WebLogic Scripting tool).

Oracle ACE Director Andrejus Baranovskis shares a nice plug for the SOA & E2.0 Partner Community Forum XIII coming up in March in the Netherlands.

Oracle ACE Directors Lonneke Dikmans, Ronald van Luttikhuizen, Mike van Alst, and Floyd Teter and Oracle enterprise architect Mans Bhuller share their thoughts on the forces that are shaping enterprise architecture.

In this presentation from SOA Symposium 2010, Manas Deb and Clemens Utschig-Utschig discuss how to derive business agility from SOA and BPM, motivations for agility, developing and nurturing agility, influencers and dependencies, how SOA and BPM enable agility, pitfalls and recommendations for organizational culture, and pitfalls and recommendations for business and technical architectures.