In a recent entry I mentioned that Digipede had been selected as a finalist for Microsoft’s Partner of the Year Award in ISV/Software Solutions Innovation. Well, it turns out that they won!From the press release:Leading grid software provider Digipede Technologies today announced it has won the Partner of the Year Award for ISV/Software Solutions, Innovation at the 2007 Microsoft Worldwide Partner conference. Digipede was chosen out of an international field of top Microsoft Partners as delivering market-leading customer solutions built on Microsoft technology. The awards were distributed at a ceremony on July 11 in Denver, CO at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference. Digipede CEO John Powers and I have long agreed that the grid community needs to concentrate on applications if grid adoption is ever going to take off. And as John himself said, “if grid is ever going to reach its full potential, it has to disappear, or at least become less of a giant threshold for applications and application developers to cross.”Digepede’s aim was to be the bridge that crosses that threshold, and this kudos from Microsoft shows that they have succeeded. Congratulations to John Powers and his team. This is indeed a sign of the growing main stream acceptance of Grid. Technology Industry