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The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), a global consortium dedicated to accelerating the adoption of Linux, today announced that ActiveGrid, Inc., a new commercial open source software company, has joined OSDL and will participate in the lab's Data Center Linux (DCL) working group. ActiveGrid, a new company that launched in November of 2004 with venture backing from Hummer Winblad and Allegis Capital, is focused on enabling transactional applications to be scaled across a grid of low-cost commodity computers. The company is building its products around the popular LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and the PHP, Python and Perl scripting languages) stack of open source software. "We are bringing transaction grid computing to mainstream business applications, leveraging the innovation of the open-source LAMP stack," said Jeff Veis, vice president of marketing and business development at ActiveGrid. "Community-driven innovation is at the very core of what differentiates Linux from traditional technology models. We see OSDL as the preeminent organization in which to foster the industry collaboration needed to drive the broad adoption of open-source based transaction grid computing." "We welcome ActiveGrid into OSDL and are pleased that they will contribute their expertise in open source grid applications to the DCL working group," said Stuart Cohen, CEO of OSDL. "As Linux continues to grow in enterprise data centers, we look forward to ActiveGrid's contributions to the development of Linux-based solutions for business-critical computing."