| | Oracle pushes grid plan - ZDNet UK News |
 | | Oracle executives have called grid computing the most significant new business technology to come along since the Internet, and they say Oracle is making its most innovative technology leap in a decade with a host of new database and related software products it's readying around the grid concept. |
 | | In a grid world, the idle time of hundreds of servers and databases could be pooled and allocated at different times for separate applications, dynamically adjusting to whichever system demanded the most processing power at the time. |
 | | One advantage of grid computing, Phillips added, is that companies can adopt the technology at their own pace by gradually replacing big, expensive servers that act as "islands of computation" with cheaper computers that share processing power over the grid. |
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