I started listening to the Java Posse podcasts and over Holiday break I have been listening to a bunch of older Java Posse podcasts, and came across a Java Posse interview with Ted Farrell from Oracle that I thought was worth mentioning. This interview was done in October 2008 and Ted spoke about the Oracle Developer Tool suite and the move from Oracle’s OC4J Application Server to the Weblogic Application server.

This is very appropriate for our group at MIT as we are looking at what our Application Server direction will be for the future. We have as large Application footprint using Oracle Application Server 10.1.2 and we are considering moving to either JBOSS or the new Oracle Weblogic Application Server. We have not started our real due diligence but hope to get to it by the second quarter of 2009, but between now and the time that this project really begins, I am trying to gather all the facts. At this point, it is obvious to all the Oracle is changing it’s application server direction away from OC4J and concentrating on the Weblogic Suite of products, so some sort of migration is in our future. I hope to share our plans with you all comments and input is welcome.

The Java Posse podcast is a great discussion about Java by 4 senior Software Architects: Tor Norbye (Sun Microsystems),  Carl Quinn (Google), Dick Wall (Navigenics), Joe Nuxoll (Navigenics) who have really helped me (an old system admin) to make to transition to more of a Software Application Manager/Administrator.

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