Comments on: Virtual world alternatives http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2009/12/virtual-world-alternatives/ THE MAGAZINE FOR ENTERPRISE USERS OF VIRTUAL WORLDS Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:31:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Maria Korolov http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2009/12/virtual-world-alternatives/comment-page-1/#comment-3868 Maria Korolov Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:07:13 +0000 http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/?p=33433#comment-3868 Michel -- You are absolutely right -- I haven't been thinking of Project Wonderland as an enterprise platform. I haven't yet found any corporate case studies for Project Wonderland, only educational pilot projects. There aren't any public social grids. And I don't see any third party vendors - like, say, ReactionGrid with OpenSim -- actively working on commercializing it for enterprise use. It is in theory a great technology, but it needs a bigger community of users, and an ecosystem of content, destinations, and service providers. The fact that Oracle just laid off all of Sun's Project Wonderland developers is not a good sign, from a business user perspective. I personally love the idea of a Java-based virtual world, and hope that the project is able to gain traction. I would especially love to see a Web-based viewer for the world. If the viewer also supported other platforms -- like Second Life or OpenSim -- it would be a game-changer. -- Maria Michel –

You are absolutely right — I haven't been thinking of Project Wonderland as an enterprise platform. I haven't yet found any corporate case studies for Project Wonderland, only educational pilot projects. There aren't any public social grids. And I don't see any third party vendors – like, say, ReactionGrid with OpenSim — actively working on commercializing it for enterprise use. It is in theory a great technology, but it needs a bigger community of users, and an ecosystem of content, destinations, and service providers.

The fact that Oracle just laid off all of Sun's Project Wonderland developers is not a good sign, from a business user perspective.

I personally love the idea of a Java-based virtual world, and hope that the project is able to gain traction. I would especially love to see a Web-based viewer for the world. If the viewer also supported other platforms — like Second Life or OpenSim — it would be a game-changer.

– Maria

]]> By: Michel DENIS http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2009/12/virtual-world-alternatives/comment-page-1/#comment-3865 Michel DENIS Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:06:23 +0000 http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/?p=33433#comment-3865 Project Wonderland was forgotten in your list: <a href="http://www.projectwonderland.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.projectwonderland.com/</a> -michel Project Wonderland was forgotten in your list:
http://www.projectwonderland.com/

-michel

]]> By: Anizia http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2009/12/virtual-world-alternatives/comment-page-1/#comment-3413 Anizia Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:08:26 +0000 http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/?p=33433#comment-3413 Hi Maria :) Yeh basically they all have major probs. Opensim is still the best option and best developed solution. We have been installing opensim for private clients for inhouse use for the last 6 motnhs with no probs Hi Maria :) Yeh basically they all have major probs. Opensim is still the best option and best developed solution. We have been installing opensim for private clients for inhouse use for the last 6 motnhs with no probs

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