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Originally Posted by killingtime They are just making that up. If someone said "grid computing" to me in a general computing context I'd take that to mean lots of machines distributing load over them (ie grid computing) which generally works under the concept of having lots of not overly powerful machines to do the work.
*sigh* maybe I just haven't kept with the times. I remember back in the old days where you had a big server and lots of dumb terminals being hosted off that... oh that's just like this is  . |
I always had the impression that the more impressive-sounding a new technology was, the more it was actually an invention of the marketing department purely for the purposes of impressing cheif executives at customer presentations. The *really* impressive ideas were the simple ones that made you wonder why you didn't think of it first. And there were precious few of those sorts of innovations.