Based on this news, Platform extends the scope of its commercial grid offering in a couple significant ways. Grid* Platform Computing, known for distributed resource management and grid computing software, has recently made some announcements that...
Grid is dependent on virtualisation of the environment - of the network, storage, databases, hardware and services - and this is happening due to the move towards open standards and the acceptance of web services and service oriented architectures...
However the strength of interest in what is now a viable Linux on the desktop, coupled with growing resentment from many businesses to paying a high tax to Microsoft for their standard office tools makes this new offering of broader interest.
And those technologies that will not be ready for another five years include 3G, RFID, commercial grid computing applications, 64bit on the desktop and 'on demand' computing - where "marketing hype is way ahead of delivery".
This leadership model was, unfortunately, not uncommon in the chief executive of many fast growing enterprises and seemingly successful enterprises of the past decade, buoyed along by a favourable economic climate and benign financial markets.
The agreement also plays into a broader trend among email software companies of all stripes to consolidate their businesses. It also sells a commercial version that includes email management and filtering services to protect enterprises against...