Powers Unfiltered

An entrepreneur’s journey into grid computing and partnering with Microsoft, by John Powers

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Congratulations to our friends at Tangosol!

March 26th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Oracle is on the march again — buying grid software company Tangasol. 
http://www.crn.com.au/story.aspx?CIID=76604&src=site-marq
Oracle may be coming to its senses about the grid space, and the importance of application performance and scalability.  Following up on its aquisition of Sleepycat last year, its interest in in-memory solutions continues.  This is more validation from a (very) large company that [...]

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Windows is optimal OS for grid computing, says Digipede

August 3rd, 2006 · 7 Comments

I adapted the title of this post from an article that appeared this week in PC Welt, entitled “Linux is optimal OS for grid computing, says Oracle.” (I found it through the diligent grid coverage provided by Greg Nawrocki in Grid Meter — thanks Greg!)
The article is primarily coverage of a presentation by Guy Cross, [...]

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