Minitab is a statistics package developed at the Pennsylvania State University in 1972. It contains functions such as graphing, regression, variance analysis, process control, reliability analysis, multivariate analysis, equivalence tests, simulation, and macro customization. Today, Minitab is often used in conjunction with the implementation of Six sigma, CMMI and other statistics-based process improvement methods.
Oracle DBMS (DataBase Management System) is an enterprise grade database system designed to handle very large and complex databases with high availability and redundancy. Oracle databases are popular in ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems such as Banner and PeopleSoft.
Oracle licenses are very complex due to its scalability and typical usage. Often the license is priced per processor, since the number of processors typically scales with the size of your database usage and operation. Large server clusters often have dozens of processors dedicated to processing request for an Oracle database.
Drupal is a free and open-source content-management framework written in PHP. It is used as a back-end framework for at least 2.1% of all Web sites worldwide ranging from personal blogs to corporate, political, and government sites including WhiteHouse.gov and data.gov.uk. It is also used for knowledge management and business collaboration.
Drupal must be installed on the web server hosting the needed content. UNCC has Drupal hosting as a service which is described here.
