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P2P4B2B – Peer-to-Peer Companies Focused on Business

This directory contains listings of P2P companies that businesses should be aware of. The sites were picked for their relevance to business use of P2P technology. For the most part, sites devoted to consumer-to-consumer (C2C) file sharing are not included.

Also check out O'Reilly's OpenP2P (www.openp2p.com/), a tremendous resource for anyone wanting to keep track of the rapidly changing P2P marketplace.

You can also see the latest P2P news here.

The sites were picked for their relevance to business use of P2P technology. Sites devoted to consumer-to-consumer (C2C) file sharing are not included. See also our listing of Non-Commercial P2P Efforts, which is a subset of this directory. All links were visited and supplementary material was added in Q3, 2006.

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Company or Effort

Web Site

Description

.Net 

www.microsoft.com/

Microsoft’s .NET effort is based on networked components, which are inherently P2P.  In addition, its FarSite project is developing a distributed file system.

100X

www.100x.com

Now defunct. A startup accelerator and software development company for P2P businesses. Buzzpad is an investee. Site down 8/2/01.

1stWorks

www.1stworks.com/

Collaborative P2P groupware network. hotComm provides secure interactive access or exchange of text, voice or files using the 1stWorks Peer Network. Any user may be client or server or both. The active link feature, IM-Live, delivers secure and serverless Java-based Instant Messaging.  ezPeer provides dynamic address redirection for Web sites hosted with dynamic IP or port addresses.

24Link

www.24link.com

Now defunct. P2P secure collaboration software.

2AM

www.2am.com/newweb/speer.asp

Now defunct. StreamingPeer™ delivers rich media content safely, quickly and cost-effectively.

2Bridge

www.2bridge.com/

Now defunct. Personal Portal Server can connect to other peer-to-peer portal and content servers. 2Share browser-based software uses XML and "pluglets".

2K

devius.cs.uiuc.edu/2k//

Now defunct. An open source, distributed adaptable grid operating system being developed by the University of Illinois.

2nd Order

www.2ndorder.com/

Now defunct.

2Way

www.2way.com/

Now defunct. A behind-the-firewall secure Instant Messaging solution, 2WAY IM requires password authentication of all participants, and provides administrative control over user connections and permissions. Uses SSL encryption and also enables back-up of corporate messaging history to offline storage.

2Wrongs

www.2wrongs.com/

Now defunct. Acquired by Cyveillance®. Omnipeer™ can search designated directories and browser caches on every users' PC within an organization. A knowledge management oriented solution.

3Path 

www.3path.com/

A priority, permission-based, and fully outsourced peer-to-peer content delivery service for all digital content. Basically a variation on push technology from investor BackWeb.

Acceloop

www.acceloop.com/

Acceloop Streaming Server Accelerator does P2P content distribution by assembling peer content delivery networks. Acceloop also provides new transfer protocols to enable higher content availability and reliable delivery.

ACD Systems

www.acdsystems.com/

Express Server™ Instant Messaging server and client for secure Instant Messaging.

Actedge

www.actedge.com/

Defunct .

Adaptinet

www.adaptinet.com/

Now defunct. Adaptive platform for developing distributed applications into open-source. Adaptinet SDK now available for download.

AdrenaMail

www.adrenamail.com/

Enables private labeled file sharing networks.

Aeolus Research

www.aeolusresearch.com/

Consulting firm experienced in installation of Beowulf clusters.

Affiniti

www.affinitigroup.com/

LiveCache forms the platform for LiveMessenger, a peer-to-peer messaging product. White paper.

AgentWare

www.agentware.net/

Syndicator, ™ is a software development platform that integrates applications

Aimster 

www.aimster.com/

Now defunct. Combines Napster-like file sharing with the AOL Instant Messaging service.

AllCast.com, FKA DiffuseNetwork

www.allcast.com/

P2P Content Delivery Network distributing server and client software for free. More . . .

ALPINE Network

cubicmetercrystal.com/alpine/

A peer based Open Source application and network infrastructure designed for decentralized information location/discovery.

Amaya Web Editor/Browser

www.w3.org/Amaya/Amaya.html

A complete web browsing and authoring environment that implements collaborative annotation. From W3C.

Amoweba

www.amoweba.com/

Human-Links is a peer-to-peer search engine that can index the Web in real-time. Paris-based.

Antepo

www.antepo.com/

Messaging platform, including IM, based on Jabber and allowing integration of disparate devices.

Applied MetaComputing 

www.appliedmeta.com/

Renamed Avaki.

Athenium

www.athenium.com/

TEAMThink Product Suite, a Performance Improvement Software System. Enables P2P learning networks.

Avaki

www.avaki.com

Formerly Applied Metacomputing. Avaki 2.0 is a computing environment that can find needed resources, coordinate and execute required processes, and return results employing scheduling, data management, fault tolerance, site autonomy, and a wide range of security options. Boeing, Harvard Medical School, the Naval Research Laboratory and NASA are clients.
JXTA White paper.

Bad Blue 

www.badblue.com/

Bad Blue is a web-based file sharing and Web publishing service that includes a tiny version of the Microsoft IIS Web server.

Bantu

www.bantu.com/

Bantu Messenger is a secure Java-based Instant Messaging system that enables broadcast notifications and works on wireless devices.

BaseOne

www.boic.com

Develops programming tools and middleware for developing P2P applications using patent-pending technologies to connect to existing databases. The company's Base/1 Internet Server (BIS) and other products are all built upon their Rich Client Architecture. Client Deutsche Bank uses BaseOne to create a virtual supercomputer.

BEEP 

www.beepcore.org/

Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol is an XML-based messaging framework for building application protocols

Beowulf

www.beowulf-underground.org/

Distributed computing project started in 1994.

Biap

www.biap.com/

GOtrieve offers personalized, automated information retrieval which captures content from anywhere on the Internet and delivers to any Web-enabled device.

BigChampagne

www.bigchampagne.com/

Does Instant Message marketing to users of Napster and other music-sharing services.
More . . .

Biz2peer

www.biz2peer.com/

Developing a P2P platform.

Black Diamond Products

www.blackdiamond.co.za/

SockeToome is a file sharing and queuing program. It depends on DNS, however, to access target computers.

Blogger 

www.blogger.com/

A Weblog application that allows you to easily publish content to the Web. Interestingly, Blogger got its users to chip in for more servers, voluntarily.

Blue Air Networks

www.blueairnetworks.com/

Now defunct. PartSage™ is a supply chain collaboration application that includes PartSage Prompt, a P2P collaboration application.

Blue Falcon Networks (FKA Static)

www.bluefalcon.com/

Now defunct. Formerly known as Static. Streamer™ reduces bandwidth and server costs for streaming media or large file downloads using a distributed network and reflector technology that creates virtual bandwidth. Signed Radio Free Virgin as client.

Blue Tiger Networks

www.bluetiger.com/

Acquired by OpenWebs. BTN Exchange Suite lets customers build P2P trading networks.

Bluetooth 

www.bluetooth.com

A peer-to-peer wireless networking protocol originally developed by Ericsson. Bluetooth devices are starting to come into the market now. For more information on Bluetooth, see the Geneer Wireless White Paper.

Bodetella

www.felmlee.com/bodetella/

File sharing Gnutella client for corporate intranets. Features download resume.

Braveway

www.braveway.com/

Author and manage newspaper classifieds from user desktop PCs with use of negotiation features and transaction services.

Brazil Project

www.sun.com/research/brazil/

This Web application framework effort from Sun links together a variety of their technologies, from Java to Jini, as well as wireless networking.

BuyLink

www.buylink.com/

P2P catalog and purchasing distribution.

Buzzpad (formerly Freeloads)

www.buzzpad.com/

Now defunct. Licenses its Buzzpad Platform software to developers and IT departments. Claims 20 "Peer-to-Peer Synchs" per second.

Cantametrix

www.cantametrix.com/

Digital watermarking. MusicDNA™ stores a unique identifier as a universal key in the Cantametrix Data Interchange. Web site down 11/17/01.

CareScience

www.carescience.com/

Health care focused data sharing.

CenterSpan 

www.centerspan.com/

Centerspan bought the assets of Scour, and has beta-released the C2C file swapping service as apparently its only product.

ChainCast Networks

www.chaincast.com/

ChainCast Content Delivery Platform does P2P media streaming.

Chord Project

pdos.lcs.mit.edu/chord/

Chord is a flexible lookup primitive intended for use in peer-to-peer environments. The Chord primitive maps keys to servers in a decentralized manner.

Cincro

www.cincro.com/

Cincro's patent-pending technology is based on advanced distributed computing and visualization technologies. Looking Glass™ presents a zoomable canvas where users can drag and drop many different data types

Climate Dynamics

www.climate-dynamics.rl.ac.uk/

Now defunct. Casino-21 is a climate simulation distributed computing project. Web site down 11/17/01.

Clip2.com

www.clip2.com/

Now Defunct.Portal source for technical information on P2P file sharing networks. See AskMeHelpdesk.com where many of the experts from the old site now answer questions.

Collanos

www.collanos.com/

Collanos Workplace is a Peer-to-Peer 2.0 teamwork solution streamlining any dispersed teams' collaboration efforts, allowing members to get on board instantly. It is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

ComputePower

www.computepower.com/

Compute Power Market project uses an economics approach in managing computational resources.

Commtag

www.commtag.com/

Now defunct. The unplug+play peer-to-peer wireless platform unifies Bluetooth Personal Area Networking and GPRS/3G Wide Area Networking, using the mobile phone as the gateway between the PAN and the WAN.

Condor

www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/

Condor is a High Throughput Computing environment based on a layered architecture that provides a powerful and flexible suite of Resource Management services to sequential and parallel applications.

Consilient

www.consilient.com/

Distributed computing infrastructure that aggregates any content and automates any business process.

Correlate

www.correlate.com/

Correlate lets users create and share KnowledgeMaps that graphically organize information.

CPIM

ietf.org/

Now defunct. The Common Profile for Instant Messaging (CPIM) specification defines a number of operations to be supported and criteria to be satisfied for interworking diverse instant messaging protocols.

CriticalPath

www.cp.net

Acquired PeerLogic. InJoin™ BATCH (formerly LiveContent BATCH). Provides batch job execution environment on UNIX, featuring job step management and recovery, priority classes, conditioned execution, job monitoring and more.

Curl

www.curl.com

Curl creates a content delivery platform. Founded by the father of the Web, Tim Berners-Lee.

Cytaq

www.cytaq.com/

Now defunct. Creator of Resource Router™, Universal Sharing Environment (USE™), Universal Query Language (UQL™), and other distributed platform-enabling technologies

Datasynapse 

www.datasynapse.com/

LiveCluster™ is a distributed, CPU-sharing system that offers CPU cycles for pay. Participants are paid in “flooz” credits they can use to buy on the Web.
More . . .

DirectP2P

sourceforge.net/projects/directp2p/

DirectP2P is a library of modules that interact with various P2P networks such as Gnutella, OpenNap, Kazaa/Morpheus, and eDonkey2000. It presents a unified interface (or API) so that anyone may write their own client.

Dcypher.net

www.dcypher.net/

Now defunct. Former name of Process Tree/Distributed Science.

Distributed.net 

distributed.net/

At first a non-profit, Distributed.net has allied with United Devices to provide distributed computing resources.

Distributed Science 

www.distributedscience.com/

Now defunct. ProcessTree ran a commercial super-computing network of 156,468 computers.

Dotcast

www.dotcast.com

Creating a national high-speed digital network for the distribution of digital entertainment, interactive services, and multimedia communications.

Dthomas consulting.dthomas.co.uk

DThomas-Software Architecture Consulting Services Software Architecture Consulting Services OOAD development process consulting

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