Following a request for comments from the BoD, Ken King provided the following mail and attached slide:

Steve, 
Can you forward this on to Dave Snelling and the OGF Board?    I don't have the distribution list. 

This is my simple input to the grid definition and categorization chart that Dave presented at the board meeting today. 
   At IBM, we are presenting a spectrum of grid capabilities that is VERY similar to Dave's definition.    The point 
being to show how both compute and data grid solutions can start simple (in a homogeneous or single application 
environment) and can scale (or start) at much larger (data center or cross-organization) implementations.    The 
thinking is to make it elastic so that people don't pigeon-hole it with a detailed definition.   

This spectrum chart is how IBM talks about grid all the time.    It's also how we map in our grid solutions when we talk
 to customers.  It has worked EXTREMELY well over the past 18-months.    I know there was some discussion and concerns 
with the use of the words data center and collaboration in the Board meeting.  If you notice, our messages are more 
elastic than that in the spectrum chart below.    I'm not asking for Dave to just use this chart.   What I'm suggesting 
is that he (and the board) leverage it to help position the right wording and messaging in the technical strategy 
document.     

We used 4 categories (instead of three), because we at IBM think there's a difference between homogeneous (cluster) 
implementations,  heterogeneous implementations within a data center,  multi-data center or organization-wide 
implementations and cross-organization (or multi-organization/enterprise) implementations.  Each of these has unique 
characteristics.   

Hope this helps in the discussion and definition.   I'm happy (at any time you want) to actually pitch this chart if 
anyone wants to hear it.   I can pitch it in 2-minutes and I can also talk about this one chart for 30-minutes...... 



Thanks, 
   Ken 

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