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Opened Academic Middleware Shifts Culture

ACM News Service: Science Middleware Initiative Goes Open-Source.  There is expansion of the NSF Middleware Initiative (NMI) to include other open-source contributions from academic researchers.  It is particularly interesting that unusual distributed collaborations are arising among institutions to handle common middleware requirements. "Collaboration is ongoing between university middleware and grid programs and corporate-world counterparts, such as the Liberty Alliance and WS-Security, says Internet2 middleware and security director Ken Klingenstein."

Nancy Weil's 2004-05-31 LinuxWorld article provides more detail and potential links.  The fascinating aspect for me is that this is fostering new cooperation models in academic research communities that don't seem so bound to grantsmanship and perishable publishing.
posted by orcmid at 6/5/2004 10:32:58 AM