SOA and the grid

From a SOA perspective, the DB is often a bottleneck and having the required data in the middletier would be a nice thing. That's where Tangosol/Oracle Coherence comes into play: Coherence allows live objects in the middletier, with linear scaling. Combined with JRockit Real Time, which provides deterministic garbage collection, this is a really valuable combination. Very intesting to see what the near future will bring.