Adventures In Utility Computing

The business of utility computing.

Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Waffling on terms

David Margulius recently wrote for Infoworld that the Grid is like a Waffle Iron. Nice when used but not used often enough.

His use of the term Grid refers to ganging processors together for use to solve a problem. According to the 451 Group, whom he cites in the article, ISVs are slow to move to this architecture. My sense is that the ISVs need to work an appropriate business model to enable movement to a grid architecture.