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United Devices, Univa to Merge
September 17, 2007
By Paul Shread

Univa and United Devices, two of the biggest players in the grid computing space, are merging.

Univa CEO Jason Liu will head the combined company, which will be called Univa UD, while UD CEO Ben Rouse will stay on as a consultant.

Univa CTO Steve Tuecke will be CTO of the combined company, and UD CTO Jikku Venkat will head the company's data center business.

United Devices is one of the oldest companies in the grid computing space and made a name for itself through public grid computing projects, but in recent years has moved into the data center virtualization market.

Univa was formed by the founders of the open source Globus Toolkit, the de facto grid computing standard. In recent months the company has combined other open source offerings into a broader grid and cluster offering. The company's goal was "to become the Red Hat" of the grid and cluster space, Liu said.

That product will be the base offering of the combined company, which will announce a formal product roadmap on Oct. 15.

“Univa UD will be an open source software company that provides value-added technology on top of the basic open source download offering, much like the business models of other successful open source companies like SugarCRM and XenSource,” said Ian Foster, co-founder of both Univa and Globus.

Liu said the two companies had little overlap, and "95 to 98 percent" of employees will be staying on.

"We have very similar approaches and very complementary products," Liu said. "It's a marriage made in heaven."

Liu said both companies have briefed customers on the merger and the response has been positive. "We've had very strong response from customers on both sides," he said. "The timing is perfect for this."

In other grid news, the Open Grid Forum has announced that Craig Lee of The Aerospace Corporation will succeed HP's Mark Linesch as OGF president.

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