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(Mis)Uses of Technology

by Mike Masnick

Mon, Jul 22nd 2002 2:39pm





Forget The Internet, Get Ready For The Grid

from the the-internet-is-so-last-millennium dept

It seems that a group of British scientists funded by (among others) both Oracle and IBM have started setting up the basics for what they consider to be a next generation internet that will correct many of the faults of the original while making it easier for researchers to collaborate on massive quantities of data for research. Not much in the way of details in the article, so it's tough to have much of an opinion on it at this point.

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    Oracle is behind this? Must be the "Next Generatio

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    LittleW0lf, Jul 22nd, 2002 @ 5:55pm

    Great...we get a new internet, with overpriced (and inadequate) support and no free licenses, no documentation, and no security fixes or patches unless you pay the huge yearly support content, constantly changing licenses and support agreements, and contractual frauds with states wishing to appease Oracle by sending large portions of their tax money for more licenses than they will ever need...and besides, it is unbreakable because (and only because) Larry Ellison says so.

    Sounds good to me. I can see the ads now...

    Next Generation Internet

    Unbreakable, You Can't break it!

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    The grid

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    britman, Jul 23rd, 2002 @ 3:47am

    Don;t be fooled. We are on the grid and it is entirely bogus. Just computers connected by high speed networks with some *very* ropey software involved. Might be worth looking at in a few years but now it isn't that interesting unless you want to do hugely parallel stuff.

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