The story has been corrected on the wire. Paragraphs 16 and 17, the closing paragraph, now read as follows:

Infinispan is "only one architecture for doing a distributed system. What we're focusing on with JSR-107 is simply doing the interfaces," added Greg Luck, chief technology officer of Terracotta's Ehcache, who is involved in the JSR-107 effort.

"The thing that is surprising is not that Red Hat wants to create a standard spec for data grids, but they are trying to replace JSR-107, when they well know the efforts that are currently under way," Luck said.