At Gartner’s recent IT Symposium event, Steve Ballmer called high performance clusters a “Linux stronghold,” and explained that Microsoft is gunning for the market with a cluster edition of Windows ...

More work needs to be done on Linux at the operating system level, grids will have limited appeal, and there will be a mass movement to embrace clustering software among organizations large and small.

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...