| p>Oracle Application Server: | | | | University provide you with the necessary expertise |
| Oracle's Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition | | | | for your Oracle projects. For useful links to a variety |
| (J2EE)-certified server integrates everything that is | | | | of resources, see the appendix titled "Next Steps, |
| needed to develop and deploy Web-based | | | | Continuing Your Education. |
| applications. The application server deploys e-business | | | | Oracle Database 10g: |
| portals, Web services, and transactional applications, | | | | Global Grid Forum (GGF) is a standards body that |
| including PL/SQL, Oracle Forms, and J2EE-based | | | | develops standards for grid computing. It comprises a |
| applications. | | | | set of committees and working groups that focus on |
| Oracle applications: | | | | various aspects of grid computing. The committees |
| Oracle E-Business Suite is a complete set of business | | | | and working groups are composed of participants |
| applications for managing and automating processes | | | | from academia, the research community, and |
| across your organization. | | | | (increasingly) commercial companies. You can see the |
| Oracle Collaboration Suite: | | | | Web site of GGF at |
| Oracle Collaboration Suite is a single, integrated | | | | Oracle has created the grid computing infrastructure |
| system for all your organization's communications | | | | software that balances all types of workloads across |
| data: voice, e-mail, fax, wireless, calendar information, | | | | servers and enables all those servers to be managed |
| and files. | | | | as one complete system. Grid computing can achieve |
| Oracle Developer Suite: | | | | the same very high level of reliability as mainframe |
| Oracle Developer Suite is a complete, integrated | | | | computing because all components are clustered. But |
| environment that combines application development | | | | unlike mainframes and large UNIX symmetric |
| and business intelligence tools. | | | | multiprocessing (SMP) servers, a grid can be built with |
| Oracle services: | | | | open system technologies, such as Intel processors |
| Services such as Oracle Consulting and Oracle | | | | and the Linux operating system, at a very low cost. |