HGB: Ways to make a grid unique

[Dot Matrix]

Three ways to make a grid unique via Features, Content and Community. In the article, Kitely scores very highly in terms of features, as the following quote shows.

I can think of exactly three features that grids have rolled out that were unique at the time and have remained unique, and two of them belong to the same grid.

Kitely has been offering cloud-based, on-demand regions since it first launched, allowing the grid to offer consistently lower prices, high concurrency, and virtually infinite scalability. The grid invested a huge amount of work up front in the infrastructure to make this possible, and continues to invest in this infrastructure. Other grids have begun using cloud-hosting as well, especially during periods of high growth or for temporary events, but the regions are standard, always-on regions.

Kitely also has the only successful online marketplace for OpenSim. Other grids have tried to set them up, but ran into the chicken-and-egg problem: customers don’t come unless there’s a lot of content, and merchants don’t come unless there are a lot of customers. Again, Kitely put in a great deal of preliminary work, reaching out to merchants to build the market around their needs, and actively recruiting merchants so that it would have a reasonable selection of content right from the start. Today, the Kitely Market delivers to 131 different grids, keeping the Kitely name in front of potential customers, and bringing in revenues that the grid can use to further invest in technology.