Companies have made invested increasingly in computing resources upgrades but this starts to be an obstacle to be supported by them and hence can hazard innovation activities. Most of computers are however underutilized at the companies so they could be used by external users if appropriate platforms could find them and manage them properly. This work aims at presenting some exploratory results of using Grid Computing as a supporting technology both to allow a company to use the computing resources of the other members of the Virtual Enterprise and to allow a flexible and smart selection of the most suitable resources to have access. A prototype has been developed and its results are discussed.
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