Sunday, August 01, 2004

The Real Time Enterprise and BPEL - Thomas Kurian Thomas Kurian is the VP of the Oracle Appplication Server here at Oracle.  Normally when he does a presentation it is deeply technical, however in this talk at Oracle OpenWorld Shanghai he uplevels the story to cover RFID, Customer Data Hub, BPEL and Grid in the context of a cell phone manufacturer: http://www.oracle.com/broadband/showtripane.html?3232269 Its 42 minutes well spent to get a pretty compelling use case of how some disparate parts of Oracle's platform story come together to create business value rather than just technology value. I was there also giving the OracleAS BPEL Process Manager and OracleAS Web Services session presentations amongst others.  The BPEL PM talk was an overflowing room so it appears the interest in this standards based process languages really is global in nature.  The Web services talk was also well attended with a number of interesting questions around performance indicating some fairly serious Web services usage in China. comment [] 2:54:22 AM