With Red Hat, the leading Linux distributor, hitting balls out of the park left and right, it’s no wonder that its business model holds attraction for other startups. The latest I have come across is Univa Corp., a months-old Chicago-based startup that’s trying to do for grid computing what Red Hat has done for PC servers. Univa takes the open-source Globus Toolkit, which is used for stitching together vast armies of servers, and packages it as a product suite and service suitable for the needs of large corporations. Univa picked up a huge credibility boost Oct. 3 when IBM adopted the its technology as a core piece of its grid computing offering.
Link: BusinessWeek
