We are not new to virtual worlds or grid ownership/management. Between the 3 of us, we have more than 20 years of experience being in Virtual Worlds and now have more than 15 man years experience running and owning a grid. The three of us started this grid out of frustration in dealing with grid owners who have a completely different outlook toward ownership of a grid and the long hours it takes to make a grid work. We also got tired of no forward movement in developement and a complete lack of regard to the issues of their memberships. Affordability was another issue with a region cost being anywhere from free to over 300 US dollars per month to maintain. Through deep discussion over several months came the idea to build our own grid. It has been a long and sometimes very tiring proposition but here we are almost 7 years later and still going, still caring and still developing. New ideas, new stratagies to make the grid better, to make your experience better and above all else to keep the costs down to make for a far more affordable grid to live and work on. Our growth is steady, Developement is on going and we now have opensim version 0.9.0.1 fully operational, which provides an even better experience.

Lets be perfectly clear..TanGLe Grid does not offer, nor make, any judgement on which is better. That is your decision and opinion. We have ours, you make your decision based on YOUR experience. While Second Life has held a dominant position in virtual world and life for many years, such is not the case any longer. OpenSim is gaining more membership and offers, for some, a better experience. Be advised, not all SL (Havoc) scripts work in Opensim. You will need to change your scripting methods when you go to an Opensim world and again when those Opensim worlds upgrade to versions above 0.8. Of the 2 major types of physics engines available to Opensim, ODE physics engine for versions 0.7.6.1 and under, Bullet Physics engine on version 0.8 and higher. (TanGLe Grid Offers both ODE and Bullet Physics on designated regions) TanGLe Grid uses Opensim version 0.9.0.1 .