Yesterday, Lex Fitzcarraldo of TNW Designs and Real Estate (TNW) announced their successful test of their own grid. They said that they ran fifty regions from an existing server. In the discussion, they confirmed that they are running OpenSim and discussed having custom work done to handle issue s like currency, which OpenSim does not yet support, or the importing of assets from other regions.

How will this compare with the efforts of Central Grid which is focusing on bringing Second Life businesses into alternative grids? How will this relate to DeepGrid? OpenLifeGrid and people running their own personal grids?

Back in September, I wrote 1994 all over again about the emergence of new grids. Now, they are emerging and the new grids need to demonstrate their unique selling points. It will be fun to watch what emerges. To keep track of emerging opensim based grids, keep a close eye on the OpenSim Grids wiki page.