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EC Workshop, Brussels, 21.1.04

EC Workshop, Brussels, 21.1.04 “Delivery of industrial-strength Grid middleware: Establishing an effective European Approach”. Session: “Grid software and service business models”. G. Lonsdale Assistant General Manager C&C Research Laboratories NEC Europe Ltd. (St. Augustin, Germany).

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EC Workshop, Brussels, 21.1.04

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  1. EC Workshop, Brussels, 21.1.04 “Delivery of industrial-strength Grid middleware: Establishing an effective European Approach” Session: “Grid software and service business models” G. Lonsdale Assistant General Manager C&C Research Laboratories NEC Europe Ltd. (St. Augustin, Germany)

  2. Open Source Developments  Open-source Grid middleware development in EU projects  establish a user community and the use of common (interoperable) software. !! Care to be taken in the choice of licences  to be such that optimised, proprietary software solutions may be produced  allows vendors to protect investments  provides industrial/commercial users with reliable partners and optimised, support products. Where appropriate Therefore.. • A succesful example: MPI • Open forum (producing the definition) • Open source reference implementation • Optimised products from vendors that choose to develop them ...

  3. Open Source Developments - II • Precludes certain open source licences • EU projects must be aware of the impact of software licences for software introduced to the project Recommendation: Definition of best-practice guidelines for open source licensing with EC-funded projects

  4. Industrial impact of the e-Infrastructure The current e-Infrastructure developments appear to target academic/ big Science users and academic networks. If industrial/commercial services are to be deployed: Access for industrial or commercial users (particularly SMEs) needs to be included in the design of the infrastructure and of the business models to be applied to that infrastructure.

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