• In business
  Business
  A business is an organization engaged in the trade of goods, services, or both to consumers. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, where most of them are privately owned and administered to earn profit to increase the wealth of their owners. Businesses may also be not-for-profit...
  
   an organization that can take one of the following forms:
  • a business which operates primarily via electronic means; see virtual business
    Virtual business
    A virtual business employs electronic means to transact business as opposed to a traditional brick and mortar business that relies on face-to-face transactions with physical documents and physical currency or credit.-History:...
    
    
  • independent organizations that share resources to achieve their goals; see virtual enterprise
    Virtual enterprise
    A virtual enterprise is a temporary alliance of businesses or persons that come together to share skills or core competencies and resources in order to better respond to business opportunities, and whose cooperation is supported by computer networks....
    
    

• Virtual organization (grid computing)
  Virtual Organization (Grid computing)
  In grid computing, a Virtual Organization refers to a dynamic set of individuals or institutions defined around a set of resource-sharing rules and conditions...
  
   a group who shares the same computing resources

See also

• VOICED
  VOICED
  Virtual Organization for Innovative Conceptual Engineering Design is a virtual organization that promotes innovation in engineering design. This project is the collaborative work of researchers at five universities across the United States, and is funded by the National Science Foundation...
  
  Virtual Organization for Innovative Conceptual Engineering Design