Both IBM and Platform Computing today issued bundles tied together to help companies begin building grids. IBM offered up Grid and Grow, which it calls a starter pack for companies that want to move to grid computing. Based on blade servers, Big Blue’s pack houses management software, a choice of operating systems, and scheduling software. IBM Global Services will kick in grid scheduler installation, tuning, testing and client training. Platform, for its part, brought out the Enterprise Grid Orchestrator (EGO). The company will post a free download of its EGO development kit by year’s end to help developers integrate applications. The first EGO-based product, VM Orches-trator, will coordinate virtual machine apps such as VMware and Xen. VMware this morning announced that it is working with AMD, BMC Software, Computer Associates, Dell, Intel, Novell, and Red Hat and will give those partners access to the source code and interfaces of its VMware ESX Server under the VMware Community Source program. The idea, VMware said, is to push open virtualization standards. For full show coverage, please see our Special Report: LinuxWorld Conference and Expo. Software Development