# About the environment

The list below explains a bit more about the environments:

Name	Description	Use cases
WEB	General web applications	web applications like portal or corporate application
OLTP	Applications with a large volume of transactions	Applications of ERP type or big corporate systems with a lot of simultaneous transactions
DW	Dataware house applications	General Business Inteligence applications
Mixed	Environments who share the database and the application in the same server	Small applications, typically running on the web
Desktop	Development environment	development machine, support or pre-sales