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August 11, 2003 | Comments: (0)

Global Grid Forum welcomes SAS

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The story I filed earlier today, "SAS becomes Grid computing forum member" was filed before I was able to get a comment from the CEO of the Global Grid Forum, Charlie Catlett. His comments are worthwhile so I thought I'd post them here.

"We're delighted that SAS intends to join and participate in
GGF! We do have several companies that focus on enterprise-level software
solutions but of our 60 sponsor member organizations I would say less than
10% are from companies providing enterprise-wide software solutions. The
increasing number of these companies joining GGF is an excellent sign that
the components and underlying "plumbing" of Grid computing are starting to
provide a solid enough foundation upon which to build."

And the fact that Grid is getting as a member a giant like SAS is also good for the GGF.

"One of the things that enterprise-level companies bring that is quite
important is an understanding of scale. Grid computing is still in the
early stages of application and few of the success stories involve more
than hundreds of users and dozens of participating
organizations. Companies like SAS routinely deal with thousands of users
and virtual organizations involving hundreds of participating entities - be
they divisions within a company or collections of companies. The insight
that comes with building software at this scale is absolutely essential to
developing Grid computing standards."

Posted by Ephraim Schwartz on August 11, 2003 03:25 PM

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