Sun Microsystems plans to open its much-delayed public Sun Grid this week or next, letting people use PayPal to buy processing cycles, company president Jonathan Schwartz said.
At first blush, Greg Gianforte would seem to be the ideal candidate for Sun Microsystems' Grid service. But the chief executive of RightNow Technologies isn't interested.
While Sun Microsystems continues to roll out new applications for its pay-as-you-go grid computing network in the US, international customers face a much longer wait for the global rollout of the service.
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Grid computing offered on full-service, pay-per-use basis
President Jonathan Schwartz says "The hallmark of a utility is a transparent price."
The database giant launched its grid computing offering with much fanfare but when its partners are sending mixed messages, will this help Oracle's cause?
Sun Microsystems has upgraded its top-end "grid" software, a product that lets teams of computers collectively tackle calculation problems, making it more suitable for businesses that need strict control of their computing resources.
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.
Red Hat and Sun Microsystems are gearing up to sell Linux for desktop computers, the companies' chief executives said Tuesday.
Sun would like to think it can succeed where others have failedÂÂâ€"in breaking Microsoft's stranglehold on the office productivity marketâ€"by offering a product that's almost as good as Microsoft Office at a much lower price. Do the sums add up?
Hewlett-Packard has begun a push to merge the supercomputing world of "grid" computing with its own business-oriented products.
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