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A Major Milestone
I nearly missed this industry first, following last quarter’s related announcement: Linden Lab and IBM Achieve Major Virtual World Interoperability MilestoneOpen Grid Protocol Enables Avatars to Teleport Between Second Life and OpenSim Virtual Worlds NEW YORK & SAN FRANCISCO – 08 Jul 2008: Linden Lab®, creator of the virtual world Second Life®, and IBM (NYSE:IBM)…
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IBM Pulls Late April Fool’s Prank?
“Enterprise-Class Second Life” Some days the jokes write themselves. Did they mean “Second-Class Enterprise Life”? It’s like Second Life, only more expensive, with even fewer people, and minus the interesting bits? Can “Enterprise-Class World of Warcraft” be far behind? “Enterprise-Class Grand Theft Auto”? Imagine the resplendently rendered virtual bus that drives up to your virtual…
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Blue Haze
IBM announced something today they called the “Blue Cloud” initiative that is a “game-changing model for Internet-scale computing”. Some thoughts and questions: This is a seriously half-baked announcement. The press release rambles on and on yet says very little. This “next major advance in computing” merits a single page on IBM’s web site with two paragraphs of text and a stock photo. IBM…