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