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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY /
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Special Features:
IBM: OPEN SOURCE IS KEY FOR
INNOVATION, INTEGRATION
IBM's vice president of Technology and Strategy, Irving Wladawsky-Berger,
is
arguing that the next phase of innovative technology greatly depends on the
adoption rate of open source software.
In light of this, IBM and Sun Microsystems are currently discussing the
creation of an open source version of Sun's Java Technology.
Wladawsky-Berger says that the possibilities for innovation are greatly
enhanced through open source software. Rather than bringing a device to a
company like IBM, creators can use Linux software to integrate their own
products.
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Though Wladawsky-Berger does not want big vendors to get in the way of
these
emerging new technologies, he is confident that IBM can help companies to
develop open source and the advantages that come with it.
For instance, companies would need sophisticated infrastructures to manage
devices and analyze the subsequent data that they provide. And IBM would play
an enormous role in helping to build these infrastructures.
In addition, industry standards, along with open source, would help to
deter
bottlenecks and other things that would impede smaller companies' innovations
and relationships with larger companies.
Wladawsky-Berger is also stressing the importance of industry expertise and
admits that IBM has been adding industry experts in order to work with
partners in different industries.
IBM executives, in their efforts to focus on the specific needs of
different
industries, have been speaking with channel partners so that they may design
and integrate products based on various aspects of industry knowledge.
An increase in the number of venture capital companies supporting smaller,
emerging companies in the next few years is also expected by
Wladawsky-Berger.
According to Wladawsky-Berger, Grid computing will take the new
applications
from these companies onto a single distributed infrastructure. Users may not
even realize that it's being used, but will just log on and work through a
simple interface.
In addition, healthcare and other complex application sectors will benefit
from Grid's processing power without realizing it. Because the applications
run on computers unseen, users will not have to worry about computing
resources. More focus and attention will be paid to the applications and
processes at hand.
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