Intel Always Intended Science Sim OpenSimulator to be a Competitor to Second Life
Intel has been active in Second Life for some time. Intel has now created their own 3D Internet OpenSim Project based on OpenSimulator. Science Sim is being promoted and Intel is now a very real competitor to Linden Lab and Second Life.
In the below Sponsors of Tomorrow marketing campaign Sky has created the below Open Sim commercial. Check out the below video. It is about 4 minutes long.

[...] Second Life Enterprise Version Sells for Astonishing $55,000 There is a huge benefit to virtual meetings and 3d training. But even I was surprised to learn that the secure Second Life Enterprise version costs an astonishing $55,000. Of course this does include the hardware (two 1RU rack-mount servers) but the price seemed a bit of a shock given it can be obtained at a much lower cost in Second Life or even in OpenSim. [...]