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2003 Editors' Choice Awards By David A. Kelly Once again, Oracle Magazine editors scoured the globe in search of the most innovative, dedicated, and thoughtful Oracle users and managers we could find. This year, our Editors' Choice Awards include 21 winners in 20 categories, recognizing users of Oracle's business intelligence and portal technologies; Web services, Java, and open-source developers; early adopters; authors; and more. See who they are, what they do, and why they won. The Grid: Getting Down to Business With Enterprise Grid Computing By Philip J. Gill The latest release of Oracle's application server transforms a middle-tier infrastructure into a low-cost, highly efficient, easy-to-manage computing grid. Customers and developers share their strategies for saving costs and gaining power by moving to enterprise grid computing via Oracle Application Server 10g.

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From Our Readers Readers tell us what they think. In Search Of By Jeff Spicer It's a big job finding the world's most talented Oracle technologists: Here's how it's done. AT ORACLE Events Find out about current and upcoming industry events. Oracle News Identity Management in Oracle 10g Oracle Briefs Select Star from Oracle David Pearson, Oracle's U.K. grid program director, helps shape the future of utility computing. CHANNELS Vendor News BIO-key, FaceTime Communications, and AquaFold Partner News MobileBIS, Deloitte, HP, and Dell Cutting Edge Technology comes to life. Peer-to-Peer Glen Stromquist, Jayesh Patel, and Elizabeth Cully

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TECHNOLOGY  INDUSTRY STANDARD The Path to Portlet Interoperability By John Edwards JSR 168 and WSRP open portals to cross-platform deployment.

GLOBALIZATION Unicode Enables Globalization By Jonathan Gennick and Peter Linsley Unicode encodes everything and represents everyone.  PL/SQL Disciplined PL/SQL By Steven Feuerstein Four simple guidelines for improving the quantity and quality of PL/SQL code you write  BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE Capturing Change By Sanjay Mishra Use Change Data Capture to simplify ETL in data warehouse applications.  ASK TOM On Constraints, CASE, and Cursors By Tom Kyte Our technologist talks integrity, time, and belonging.

INSIDE OCP Upgrading Your OCP By Jim DiIanni Concepts and sample questions for OCP upgrade certification  OTN Open-Door Policy By Robert Dell'Immagine and Justin Kestelyn OTN embraces open-source tools—and its new Community Awards winners. ORACLE DEVELOPER  TRENDS When Rows and Columns Won't Do By Cameron O'Rourke Use native XML features to handle changing data structures.  OTN DEVELOPER Solving Complex Coding Challenges By Robert Hall Sample code demonstrates a variety of approaches to tackling internet-application development.  WEB SERVICES Who Needs Web Services Transactions? By Mike Lehmann Transaction support emerges in Web services standards.  XML Updating XQuery By Jason Hunter XQuery has some new possibilities, from atomization to trace to file structures.  JSP Servlets and JSP Step Up By Budi Kurniawan The new Servlet 2.4 and JavaServer Pages 2.0 technologies will serve us all well.