Why was the Globus Consortium formed?
More and more enterprises are looking to Grid solutions to save money, share resources and use their computing resources more efficiently. As the technology of the Grid evolved from research organizations to the enterprise, IT vendors and enterprise IT managers looked for ways to incorporate the Globus Toolkit, the de facto standard for Grid computing, into their corporate environments and product offerings. Through the Globus Consortium, IT vendors and end-users can efficiently work with the open source Globus Toolkit community and commercial developers to bring enterprise Grid requirements to realization. The Globus Consortium was formed to advance the open source Globus Toolkit through promotion, support, research, education and the embrace of open standards for Grid.
