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Old 31st-August-2005, 11:24 AM   #17 (permalink)
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Re: IT acronyms/jargon

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Originally Posted by JoC
"Softgrid is the generic name for a bunch of servers that rather than just hold data like your servers over in the exciting and sexy department actually hold the applications as well. *snip*
The advantage is that PCs don't need to be upgraded and really old machines can be used to run modern software. It also makes administration a lot easier because there is only ever one copy of an application.
Well, I'd echo the "they're making it up comment", except that there is a product called SoftGrid (http://www.softricity.com/products/index.asp), which sounds similar to that description.

Cutting through the marketese (and that wasn't easy), it's a networking application. But then, so is Windows Explorer

But "generic name", definitely not.
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