If you take a big swig of vendor Kool-Aid from IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems or Oracle these days, it'll taste a whole lot like grid computing. The actual flavor might be labeled (or mislabeled) as something else: utility, on-demand, autonomic, adaptive or even pervasive computing. But the upshot will be this notion of making miraculously cost-effective use of idle networked computing resources.
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