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Chapter 14. Network Deployment Models

The previous chapters of this book
focused on the features and architecture of the Oracle database. This
chapter steps beyond the confines of specific features to look at the
different deployment architectures that have been a focus of the last
three Oracle releases.

This book is now in its third edition. We wrote the first edition
about Oracle8 and Oracle8i, and added
Oracle9i coverage to the second edition. In that
second edition, we entitled this chapter "Oracle and
the Web," recognizing that the capabilities of the
Oracle database were being expanded beyond its traditional
roleindeed, the database was becoming one of the pillars of an
overall Internet platform solution.

With the release of Oracle Database 10g, Oracle
Corporation is promoting another deployment architecture, the
emerging concept known as grid computing. This chapter looks at how
the Internet and its associated architecturewith its expanded
scope and adherence to standardshave impacted the Oracle
database over the past few years. It also provides a brief overview
of an important complementary part of the "Oracle
platform," Oracle Application Server. Finally, the
chapter describes how grid computing fits into this evolution.

This new version of this final chapter reflects the state of the
Oracle platform with the release of Oracle Database
10g, with less emphasis on some of the
functionality that went exclusively toward supporting previous
versions of the Oracle platform.