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'''Configurable Network Computing''' or '''CNC''' is the [[Oracle Corporation]]'s [[JDEdwards|JD Edwards®]] (also known simply as JDE) [[client-server]] architecture and methodology that was designed to implementimplements scalable enterprise-wide business solutions software that can run on a wide variety of database andhardware, operations systems (OS) and hardware platforms. The CNC architecture is now managed and sponsored by the [[Oracle_Corporation|Oracle]] that has taken over the ownership of the [[JDEdwards]] [[Enterprise Resource Planning]] ([[ERP]]) system. ItCNC also refers to the systems analysts who install, maintain, manage and enhance this architecture. Oracle is continuing to develop this technology and will incorporate key elements of the CNC technology into its Oracle Fusion project which will pull together "best of breed" technologies from JDE, PeopleSoft and its own application software technologies.

==The CNC architecture==

Oracle is continuing to develop the CNC technology and will incorporate key elements of the CNC technology into its Oracle Fusion project which will pull together "best of breed" technologies from JDE, PeopleSoft and its own application software technologies.

In this the Configurable network computing architecture, a company's JDEdwards [[business software]](JDE)applications run in such as way as to be transparently insulated from both the [[database]] where the business data is stored as well as from the client [[computer]]'s underlying [[operating system]]. In layman's terms, the business programs don't "care" where the data is or which operating system is being used on any of the [[end user]] computers. Neither do the applications servers on which business programs run need to directly "know" what database systems are being called on the data end or back end. The CNC architecture keeps track of this through various database tables that point the business applications to the servers that run or execute the business applications and also include database connection tools called database drivers that tell the system also where the database servers are and what specific databases to do lookups, data inserts and data extracts from. Because of the key nature of the underlying architecture, a sound CNC infrastructure is critical to the success of a JD Edwards OneWorld® installation or implementation.

In this the Configurable network computingCNC architecture, a company's JDEdwards (JDE) [[business software]](JDE)applications run in such as way as to be transparently insulated from both the [[database]] where the business data is stored as well as from the client [[computer]]'s underlying [[operating system]] and all other intervening JDE business applications servers. In layman's terms, the business programs don't "care" where the data is or which operating system is being used on any of the [[end user]] computers. Neither do the applications servers on which business programs run need to directly "know" what database systems are being called on the data end or back end. The CNC architecture keeps track of this through various database tables that point the business applications to the servers that run or execute the business applications and also include database connection tools called database drivers that tell the system also where the database servers are and what specific databases to do lookups, data inserts and data extracts from. Because of the key nature of the underlying architecture, a sound CNC infrastructure is critical to the success of a JD Edwards OneWorld® installation or implementation.

In what has been known traditionally as [[client-server]] environments, applications must communicate across a combination of different hardware platforms, operating systems and databases as including. The CNC architecture uses a layer of software, called [[middleware]], which resides between the platform operating system and the JDE business applications. To accomplish this, JDE provides two types of middleware, JDENET Communication Middleware for communication of and JDEBASE Database Middleware