In the latest recycling of the Oracle Grid Index we see that Grid computing growth is the fastest in India. Previously we’ve seen this study reveal that European businesses lag behind their US counterparts in their understanding and adoption of related service-oriented architectures (SOAs).The Oracle Grid Index was summarized nicely by the folks at GRIDtoday, who themselves a month prior, came to the conclusion that European grid users are, on average, more advanced than their North American counterparts.There is seemingly contradictory information in the data above, however, it really comes down to how one looks at and interprets the data. And how one looks at the data can yield very different results when the data is fairly non quantitative or when quantitative data is gleaned from qualitative means such as interviews with IT decision makers. This is not a dig at Oracle or GRIDtoday. No one knows better than I how hard it is to glean real metrics from this very generalized market that can mean many different things to many different people. However there is one simple metric that can be used which is very understandable to the enterprise space, and a metric I would like to see Grid, SOA, and virtualization measured against. Money. Technology Industry