The Blogosphere has been pretty excited this week with Oracle showing off many of their applications running on Flex at OpenWorld this week (including these announcements blogged by James Ward: support system Meta Link, Enterprise Manager database tool, Siebel CRM and more). It has made for interesting viewing, and been a nice trip down memory lane for me, after having worked at Oracle (back in Web 1.0 days), and having sat in on the first flex 2.0 training offered in Australia when working for OmniEffect.

It has also been interesting because of the involvement of Mike Wise (Founding Director of OmniEffect and former Lead Architect at Oracle) with Flex and Oracle.

Mike is a real fan for cutting edge technologies. When he was at Oracle his job comprised of finding cool cutting edge technologies, and building awesome proof of concepts. He left Oracle to form OmniEffect and build rich internet applications back in 2004, before they became cool. Those were the days before Adobe had bought MacroMedia, and Mike was building RIAs using the MacroMedia suite.

One of his early projects was to build a front-end to the Oracle Self-Appraisal systems using Royale (the precursor to flex). He did a great job of putting together an application, and the video footage still doesn’t look out of date (almost 4 years later).

Take a look at the video presentation of this great job by a true RIA pioneer:
http://hosting.omnieffect.com/preview/video/presentation1.html.

Mike hasn’t been one to rest on his laurels, and has been continuing to innovate. More recently he’s put together some presentations on Flex(video, ppt), and he’s been delving into the world of Microsoft.

Take a look at his blog, and think about OmniEffect for RIAs. Mike’s been building solutions to real business problems using this technology stack for years and has a great team of people ready to help you solve your technical and business needs.  OmniEffect has the answers that come from experience, and it's well worth getting in touch with Mike

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