I was looking on the grid computing syndrome and to my surprise Google Trends “Grid Computing” shows that hype around it was actually going down since 2004:

Interesting that the Oracle Grid Index shows continuous growth:

I can only think of some possible reasons for this deviation:

• People are moving from talking about it to really doing it.
• Oracle (well, Quocirca) publishes some biased or non-relevant results.
• “Senior IT influencers and decision makers” are overstating the figures.
• Google Trend graph is not relevant.