Award-Winning Architects at Oracle OpenWorld
- by Bob Rhubart
"The Winner," a sculpture by John J. Seward Jr.
The role of the IT architect may be the most hotly debated and unjustly maligned role in IT. But at this year's Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco several architects will enjoy some much-deserved recognition through the Oracle Magazine Technologist of the Year Awards.
Part of the Oracle Excellence Awards, the Technologist of the Year Awards "honor Oracle technologists for their cutting-edge solutions using Oracle products and services." Seven of the ten Technologist of the Year categories honor architects:
Technologist of the Year: Big Data Architect
Technologist of the Year: Cloud Architect
Technologist of the Year: Enterprise Architect
Technologist of the Year: Mobile Architect
Technologist of the Year: Security Architect
Technologist of the Year: Social Architect
Technologist of the Year: Virtualization Architect
If you or one of your colleagues is an architect deserving of this recognition, click the appropriate link above to find the nomination form. Deadline for nominations is Tuesday, July 17, 2012. For more information see: Technologist of the Year Awards.
See last year's winners here.