Globus Consortium

I was reading this short BusinessWeek article on Grid Computing -- nothing really new -- just the formation of a group made up of some heavyweights in the software and hardware industry to exploit grid computing technology -- specifically, the Globus standard. Among the companies are, HP, Intel, Sun and IBM -- noticeably absent from the festivities is Microsoft, who have chosen give a finger to the standard and create their own, called Dynamic Systems Initiative, which of course, works only on grids running Microsoft Windows. Duh! Doesn't this defeat the purpose of grids? The linking of disparate computing power to fill processor demand? No one should be surprised of course. For too many papers on Grid Computing, click here!