Ian Foster säger:

"...a Grid is a system that coordinates resources that are not subject to centralized
control using standard, open, general-purpose protocols and interfaces to deliver
nontrivial qualities of service."

och i en artikel i Computer World, menar han att Grid teknologi är färdigt för bred användning.
Han argumenterar också för varför organisationer som vill införa tjänsteorieinterad arkitektur
(SOA på engelska) får ett försprång med Öppen källkod och grid teknologi:

"...grid can become the underlying infrastructure that enables service-oriented architectures, virtualization, utility computing and a number of other common visions that you're hearing so much about. In order for these things to work, you have to have good distributed management functionality -- and that's what grid can provide... So in my opinion, enterprises will reach true interoperability much faster if they use open-source as the base-level grid infrastructure. In fact, many vendor's proprietary grid offerings already build on the foundation provided by the open-source Globus Toolkit. "

Vad har detta med hälsovård att göra ? Titta på Healthgrid som är ett representativt projekt och som har visionen att:

"Based on the grid technologies, the vision is to create an environment where information at the 5 levels (molecule, cell, tissue, individual, population) can be associated to provide individualized healthcare...These [points] are concrete steps toward a synergy between bio-informatics and medical-informatics through the creation of a common biomedical-Grid offering interoperability of genomics, proteomics and clinical data, with knowledge discovery tools taking advantage of data interoperability and distributed biomedical information system." (Credit : V. Breton, S. Norager, Y. Paindaveine)