Virtualized Computing

My apologies for this this somewhat general subject, but I could not think of a better way to state it.

The over hyped buzzword of the year is 'grid'.

Oracle has a grid, Sun has a grid, and now IBM has a grid.

http://www.sun.com/software/n1gridsystem/
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/oracle9i/grid_computing/index.html
http://www-1.ibm.com/services/ondemand/

It looks like large proprietary systems are in the works. It's deja vu all over again. Kind of seems like the 1970's and 80's, only on a larger scale.

My question is this: Does anyone here have real world experience with grid technology? By real world, I mean in production.

If so, which one?

Is anyone here involved in plans to implement grid computing?

I'm personally a bit of a skeptic at this point, and see it as bleeding edge, with early implementers serving as quality control testers and troubleshooters.

But then again, I'm in a small shop. I don't get out much. :)

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Jared Still
Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist
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http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l Received on Sun Dec 19 2004 - 22:51:24 CST