News On Next Version Of E-Business Suite

"Oracle Corp. is redesigning its E-Business Suite of enterprise applications to certify them for use with the company's forthcoming Oracle 10g database and application server, which will be optimized for grid computing. In the process, sources said, Oracle will enable its E-Business applications for the first time to operate on application servers from third parties.

As part of the redesign, Oracle will replace its proprietary applets, called forms, with Java servlets. Once the forms are changed, the applications will potentially be able to run on any Java application server, freeing them from dependence on Oracle Application Server." writes Renee Boucher Ferguson in this eWeek article.