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OK, this one came out while I was on vacation, so it’s a little old, but I can’t let it pass.
The new head of Red Hat, Jim Whitehurst, says “The clouds will all run Linux.”
Really? What’s next? The head of Boeing telling us that all transportation will be via 787s? Or [...]

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Digipede CTO Robert Anderson is blogging about a recent experiment we’ve conducted in our lab, assessing what it would take to get the Digipede Agent running on Mono. (For those of you who don’t know, Mono is a cross-platform implementation of .NET, developed as an open-source project led by Miguel de Icaza, and sponsored [...]

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So how did the Digipede Network become the grid computing software of choice for hedge funds?
The three primary value propositions that we’ve been emphasizing from the beginning resonate particularly well with hedge funds. For those of you who are new to the Digipede message, those propositions are: Performance, Simplicity, and Microsoft focus. [...]

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As my loyal readers know, I recently spotted an article called “Linux is optimal OS for grid computing, says Oracle,” and I took a swipe at it because, well, I disagree. Today I’ll take a little more time to explain my comments about the Microsoft platform, and why we’ve bet our company on grid computing [...]

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Well, it looks as though the Linux community has noticed Microsoft’s entry into the HPC market. 
In reviewing Tom Groenfeldt’s financial services blog on MSDN, I ran across a comment that led back to a longer post by Brad Chamberlin, expressing his incredulity that anyone could take an HPC offering from Microsoft seriously.  Brad’s comments are [...]

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