Things Heard Recently… (Jenny Schopf)
“Isn’t the Grid just a funding construct?”
“The Grid is a solution looking for a problem”
“We tried to install Globus and found out that it was too hard to do. So we decided to just write our own….”
“Cynics reckon that the Grid is merely an excuse by computer scientists to milk the political system for more research grants so they can write yet more lines of useless code.” –Economist, June 2001