Hypergrid Business has an interesting piece on the change in direction for ReactionGrid. We’ve followed them closely over the years (including our distinctly retro interview with CEO Kyle Gomboy back in 2009 and our Jibe walkthrough from earlier this year).
The changes aren’t a great surprise and funnily enough reflect my own thinking for my own studies where I’m pretty firmly in the Unity3D camp for what I need to achieve.
Here’s a snippet of what ReactionGrid have had to say:
Florida-based ReactionGrid, a pioneer in OpenSim hosting for corporations and educators, is scaling back on its OpenSim business in favor of its Unity-based Jibe platform, and considering closing down its namesake grid.
“We will focus on very high level OpenSim work only,” ReactionGrid co-founder and CEO Kyle Gomboy told Hypergrid Business.
However, the company will continue to provide hosting for JokaydiaGrid, which is focused on serving educators.
“We are pushing educators to Jokaydia,” Gomboy said.
Meanwhile. the company’s view of its namesake grid is “evolving,” he added, and the grid might even be closed.
“We’re debating that now,” he said. “I’d like to keep it up as a portal of sorts for a bit but we’ll be deciding that soon. The push is to promote Jokaydia Grid as our choice for educators which is who primarily use ReactionGrid the world.”
ReactionGrid was one of the first companies to offer OpenSim hosting, with brand-name customers like Microsoft.
You can read the full article from Maria at Hypergrid Business here.
As mentioned, it’s no great surprise but definitely an end of an area.
What’s your take on things?
People who would like to continue to work within a U.S.-hosted OpenSim environment are welcome to consider FireSabre’s Starlight virtual worlds for education. (www.firesabre.com).
We’ve waived the set-up fees for folks displaced from ReactionGrid.