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George Laszlo just posted about Microsoft’s recent announcement of the BioIT Alliance.  His post includes the sort of positioning that makes no sense to me.  At one level, Mr. Laszlo presents some quotes from the press release, and some reasonable commentary thereon.  It could well be that Microsoft is “…simply playing catch-up here with IBM,” as Mr. Laszlo’s analysis says.  But […]

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I went yesterday to a breakfast organized by the Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs, SVASE.  For those of you outside the Bay Area, you have no idea the number of “networking opportunities” there are for startups around here.  There are literally at least a dozen organizations that organize these events on a regular basis, […]

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The grid computing world is abuzz — Sun has announced the Cool Apps Developer Challenge, with $50,000 in prizes available to developers who put their applications on the Sun Grid Compute Utility.   Haven’t we been here before?  And more importantly — haven’t we gotten beyond this yet?  Since early 1999 (at least), there have been […]

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There is a stirring moment in the movie version of the Return of the King in which Aragorn rallies his troops in the face of nearly impossible odds.  As the hordes of Mordor pour out of the black gate, he roars:  “A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and […]

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Greg Nawrocki, as usual, hits some good points today in his posting about Sun Grid.  His main point is that the key to grid adoption is available apps, and I could not agree more.  This is exactly why we put so much energy and effort into our API, why we give away the Digipede Network […]

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We get questions about how the Digipede Network compares to Vendor X or Open Source Project Y pretty often; a recent example is from Matt Davey’s Tales from a Trading Desk, where Matt asked: .NET Grid Computing. Not sure what it’s advantages are over and above DataSynapse. Would be interested to know if anyone has […]

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Those who wonder where the mainstream grid computing applications are may want to attend Dan Ciruli’s next Webcast today at 10:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time.  Today he’ll talk about scaling out Web services using the Digipede Network, an area of interest for our customers (watch the Digipede Case Studies page for descriptions of current and […]

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OK, let’s start with something simple — my trip to New York City last week for the Microsoft Financial Developers Conference.  Microsoft gathered four hundred of the Best and Brightest from Wall Street, Redmond, and even Oakland, for two days of give and take at the Millenium Broadway Hotel.  I went with Digipede Product Manager […]

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Today I join the conversation.  Thanks to Robert Scoble and Shel Israel for Naked Conversations; I only got through about 50 pages before I said “alright already, I get it, I’m in.”  (Not to worry, Robert — I’ll finish it….) Thanks all the more to fellow Digipede bloggers Robert W. Anderson, Dan Ciruli, and Kim […]

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