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jmasso@gridsystems.comjmasso@gridsystems.comBrussels, 21Brussels, 21stst Jan 2004 Jan 2004

Grid Systems, S.A.Grid Systems, S.A.

Founded Feb 2000 by Joan Massó

Based in beautiful Mallorca, Worldwide operations.

Team of 50 people

Commercial Grid middleware platform, solutions and services. InnerGrid & OuterGrid

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We provide a comprehensive Grid platform to Enable, Exploit and Extend

grid solutions.

Designed from the ground up for production business environments where

Robustness, Resilience and Reliability are critical.

Focused on business, not technology per se: Security, Solutions and Support

Grid software and service Grid software and service business modelsbusiness models

Research on business models is criticalWe have studied it a lot…

We participated in an IP that had a very strong proposal on this.

Customers (and analysts, see Tabb report) are increasingly aware of the importance of the Grid Services concept

Interaction with worldwide utility computing effort (economist: futility) billing, QoS, SLA issues.Flexible pay as you go opposed to traditional licensingVery worried by the “noise” about open sourceImportance of added value vs infrastructure

Vague questionsVague questions

Ruling, monitoring and tracing intellectual Property Rights and coexisting software Licensing Models

Some models should be completely avoided (GPL) while some others encouraged (BSD)Monitoring and tracing value is hard… some companies will not be willing to play.

We have signed many many NDAs to protect and be protected. I can not say more

Service grid and e-infrastructureI believe the Telcos have a lot to say here…

Grid economies and ecosystemsBusiness alliances, joint ventures, etc…