Tibco snaps up DataSynapse for $28m
Tibco Software has purchased grid/cloud outfit DataSynapse in a deal with worth $28m. DataSynapse was not only an earlier player in grid computing with its GridServer middleware for creating and managing grids of computing capacity, but it carved a niche for itself in the early 2000s by developing a set of vertical applications …
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compute grid is not a cloud
Regardless of the DS marketing machine, DS grids are nothing like clouds - DS != Amazons EC2 environment - sure you can run a compute grid within EC2, but that doesn't mean it is one..... they are worlds apart - seems like a senseless purchase of a failing company for another cloud landgrab
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