From the general to the particular
As you might imagine, working in a technical sales role I often get asked about the Grid. There are lots of definitions of the grid and you can find out more about Oracle's at the following launchpad:
http://www.oracle.com/technologies/grid/index.html
The key piece of information that I think is not well understood is not the Real Application Cluster debate anymore, it seems to be a question of how do we share work around the nodes in a grid. This paper explains how services operate and then goes on to explain how the database tier and the application server tier can interoperate:
By the way, if there is a topic you would like me to do some research on or give my experience on, feel free to make a suggestion. The next areas that I am looking in to are to do with benchmarking, CPU utilization and how to design for high volumes.
