by Greg Nawrocki

Ian Foster and IBM’s Irving Wladawsky Berger Catch Up Re. Grid …

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Apr 7, 20061 min

Grid pioneer Ian Foster recently caught up Irving Wladawsky-Berger (a key On-Demand guru at IBM) for his latest perspectives on the Grid evolution.

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What’s particularly interesting about the discussion (concluding my other entries this week re. the Linux / Grid relationship) are Wladawsky-Berger’s thoughts about the synergies between the two communities that could potentially take shape over the near future. Wladawsky-Berger also provides some interesting insights about how open source Grid projects might take advantage of existing open source “stacks” such as LAMP to gain broader adoption. It’s an elaboration on similar perspectives that we’ve heard from Grid pundits such as William Fellows from The 451 Group in the past, and quite interesting …