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| | Oracle Touts Application Server 10G |
 | | Application Server 10G also supports business-to-business integration with partners and suppliers; policy-based management to streamline that integration by maintaining agreements, profiles and collaboration details; new model-based, event-driven management tools to handle business processes; and support for a range of standards-based integration protocols, including EDI, RosettaNet (for high-tech manufacturing) and HL/7 (for health care). |
 | | Application Server 10G also has new high-availability capabilities for applications running on clusters and grids, such as an enhanced Fast Start Fault Recovery Architecture and Failure Notification, that streamline communication between the database and application server nodes to provided coordinated failover response. |
 | | Oracle Executive Vice President Chuck Phillips in his opening keynote said that the main difference between the grid technology offered by competitors such as IBM, Sun Microsystems Inc. or Hewlett-Packard Co. is, in a word, applications. |
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