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Oracle has emphatically rejected claims by a leading figure in the European grid research community that vendor grid computing offerings were "overhyped".
IBM, one of the loudest advocates of pooling computing resources with grid technology, has secured a half-dozen new customers.
Australian computer scientists Alexander Barmouta and Rajkumar Buyya have brought grid computing one step closer to commercialsation, releasing a preliminary protoype of their Grid Bank resource accounting infrastructure.
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Looking to blunt the success of Linux in high-performance computing, Microsoft is ramping up its commitment to create a "Cluster Compute" version of Windows that better fits data-intensive computing grids.
Though still in its early days, grid computing looks to have a promising future -- if vendors can continue to educate IT departments about its benefits.
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