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.
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
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Web Site
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Description
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Eazel
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www.eazel.com/
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Now defunct Eazel Online
Storage was a distributed file sharing application.
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EcoGrid
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www.csse.monash.edu.au/
~rajkumar/ecogrid/
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Now defunct Portal for information about grid computing, with emphasis
on economics.
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Ejacent
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www.ejasent.com/
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Now defunct Ejasent UpScale™ based on Instant Application Switching™
and MicroMeasure™, supplies eBusinesses with on-demand Web
application processing capacity. UpScale Enterprise supplies
companies with on-demand server capacity on a pay-per-use
basis.
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Elepar
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www.elepar.com/
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Creators of a P2P programming technology called Software
Cabling.
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eLiberation
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www.eliberation.com/
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Financial Transaction Management ensures Digital Rights
Management and payment, allowing for controlled distribution,
copyright protection and centralized control. ePilot™, is a free search engine built on Event Frame
FTM with 953,000 members. My eHive is eLiberation’s prototype
P2P file-sharing software
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EMC
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www.emc.com/
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Storage vendor developed SymmAPI™-Sockets application programming
interface for P2P file systems.
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eMikolo
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www.emikolo.com/
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eMikolo has developed its PeerCasting™ and eMikolo Plus
Platform™ technology to enable content owners, distributors
and network operators to peer their content networks while
dictating financial and copyright policies. Partnered with
Sun.
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Endeavors Technology, Inc.
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www.endeavors.com/
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Developed Magi suite of applications for P2P devices, remote
control, and workflow. Acquired intellectual property of
Omnishift Software.
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Engenia Software, Inc.
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www.engenia.com/
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Now defunct Developed Relationship Web™, an XML-based web-enabled collaborative
workgroup solution and virtual distributed file system.
Bought assets of defunct Roku. Company emphasis seems to
have changed; may no longer be using P2P.
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Entropia
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www.entropia.com/
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Now defunct Entropia's Distributed Computing platform uses corporate
PC networks to accelerate computationally intensive enterprise
applications. Will integrate its enterprise software with
that of the Globus toolkit, a core open-source technology
that enables Grid computing. White
paper.
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Espra
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www.espra.net/
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Now defunct Open source
file-sharing client offshoot of Freenet that uses a decentralized,
serverless architecture.
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EverNet
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www.evernet.com/
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Now defunctCreated PAGM (Progressive Active Geometric Mirroring) multi
peer-to-peer technology for content delivery. Teamed with
Filmspeed to deliver motion picture content to computers
and mobile devices.
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Evolvesoft
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www.evolvesoft.com/
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Now Defunct. A startup
in stealth mode.
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| Exelion |
www.exelion.com/ |
Now
Defunct. Was a distributed business enabler creating
a P2P API. |
| Exploit Systems |
www.exploitsystems.com/ |
Now defunct Exploit Systems operates
a Peer Offering Service (POS) intended to deter file-swapping
piracy and converting users to paying customers. |
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Extradna Labs
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www.extradna.net/
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Now defunct Extradna's UDDS (Universal Distributed Data Source) Framework
is a platform for distributed knowledge collaboration that
allows users to share services and resources, discover any
resource
in the network, and easily access
and administer distributed information.
Extradna UDDS platform concepts of Resource, DataSource
and Service
make document, Website, service, device, human beings and
other resources self-described, shared, searched, referenced,
tracked and accessed.
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eZ
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www.ezmeeting.com/
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EZmeeting software for virtual meetings.
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Ezenia!
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www.ezenia.com/
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InfoWorkSpace is a collaboration environment with Instant
Messaging, virtual workspace, and other collaborative tools.
Received DoD approval as secure product for online collaboration.
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FastTrack
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www.fasttrack.nu/
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Developing the FastTrack P2P Stack. KaZaA and Morpheus
are using this technology. CloudLoad is a P2P content delivery
network.
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FileShopper
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www.fileshopper.com/
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A P2P fee-based file-sharing community dedicated to Patent
and Trademark documents.
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| Fiorano |
www.fiorano.com/ |
Tifosi
Peer Server (TPS), based on JMS, P2P and security standards,
combines messaging with P2P computing, and additional services
and APIs. The development environment features distributed
debugging, role based design views and security,
and real-time tracing and logging. Business users can easily
compose, modify and deploy new workflows in real-time.
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First Peer
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www.firstpeer.com/
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Publishers Gateway distributes buyers' searches directly
to the sellers/suppliers of an industry or marketplace,
where their inventory is searched in real time. With the
Market Gateway, suppliers can expose real time, dynamic
product inventory directly in a marketplace without adopting
expensive technologies and business methodologies. Supplier
Gateway plugs into existing e-catalog, auction or inventory
systems.
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FLIPR
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www.flipr.com/
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FLIPR (Future License of Intellectual Property Registry)
is a P2P digital media distribution system
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Flycode
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www.flycode.com/
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Now Defunct. Formerly
AppleSoup, Flycode was started by a Napster founder, and
was developing a network that lets content owners distribute
anything digital.
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Fracta Networks
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www.divine.com/
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Now defunct Acquired by Divine in August, 2001. Creating a digital
content distribution network called Personal Insight.
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The Free Haven Project
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www.freehaven.net/
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Enables anonymous publication.
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Freenet
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freenet.sourceforge.net/
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Freenet aims to create an information publication system
similar to the World Wide Web based on the protocol in which
information can be inserted into the system associated with
a "key". Later anyone else can retrieve the information
using the appropriate key. Users don’t know what files they’re
hosting. Popular files migrate closer to users.
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Free Peers
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www.freepeers.com/
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Now defunct Creators of BearShare, the Gnutella file sharing network.
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Fuse Systems
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www.fusesystems.com/
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Now defunct Search engine now for sale.
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GAIM
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gaim.sourceforge.net/
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Gaim is a clone of AOL's Instant Messenger client, but
for Linux. It is smaller and faster while featuring nearly
all of the functionality of the official AIM. Gaim also
has plugins that let you use ICQ, Yahoo, MSN, IRC, Jabber,
Napster, and Zephyr.
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Geneer
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www.geneer.com/
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Now defunct Custom software and IT consulting firm.
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GeoBridge Project
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geocities.com/dhdeans/gbridge.html
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A BusinessPeer-to-BusinessPeer (BP2BP) project proposed
by the Economic TeleDevelopment Forum. Intends to launch
a commerce-centric open P2P global business connections
network through a virtual B2B marketplace called TeleAgora.
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giFT
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sourceforge.net/projects/gift/
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A generic interface to the FastTrack P2P network (Used
by Kazaa and Morpehus). giFT also provides a generic daemon
that can load "plugins" for different file sharing protocols,
including a home grown network called OpenFT.
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Global eTech
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www.globaletech.com/
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Now defunct Partnership with Endeavors to integrate P2P technology
into Global eTech’s Supply Chain Management solutions.
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Global Grid Forum
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www.globalgridforum.com/
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Volunteer organization to promote P2P standards.
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Global TradeDesk
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www.globaltradedesk.com
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Now defunct Global TradeDesk is a P2P transaction trading system and
platform with Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) capabilities
that conforms to the ebXML standard.
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Globus
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www.globus.org/
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The Globus Project aims to create computational grids,
persistent environments that enable software applications
to integrate instruments, displays, computational and information
resources that are managed by diverse organizations in widespread
locations.
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Glue Technology
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www.gluetech.com/
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An open, Java and XML-ased platform for integrating distributed
applications and Web services.
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Gnutella
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www.gnutella.com/
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Gnutella is a fully distributed information-sharing technology
incorporating client and server in the same application.
Gnutella allows users to share files of all types.
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gonesilent.com (aka InfraSearch, now JXTA Search)
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search.jxta.org/
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Bought by Sun and folded into the JXTA project as JXTA
Search, the company developed InfraSearch for real-time
information sharing.
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gPulp
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www.gpulp.com/
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Consortium gPulp is a working group to develop the next
version of the Gnutella protocol, the general Purpose Location
protocol. French site.
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| GreenTea
Technologies |
www.greenteatech.com/ |
The GreenTea (GT) Platform is a Java-based P2P operating
system platform for distributed network computing services.
Resources that can be shared bidirectionallyinclude both
hard resources (for example CPU, RAM, hard disk, network
bandwidth, etc) and soft resources (for example files, software
applications and services, etc).
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GridPort
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gridport.npaci.edu/
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A toolkit for building portals offering entry to a computing
grid. Used for the HotPage, which organizes access to the supercomputer
resources of UCSD/SDSC, UTexas, UMichigan, and Caltech.
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Groove Networks
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www.groove.net/
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Created by Lotus Notes developer Ray Ozzie and purchased by Microsoft and renamed Office Groove, Groove is evolving
groupware into peerware. Information sharing and real-time
collaboration software are combined in this offering. More
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grub.org
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www.grub.org/
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Creates a distributed computing client, the first application
of which is a Web indexer.
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Hotline Communications Ltd
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www2.bigredh.com/hotline3/
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Hotline is a P2P community application featuring real time
chat, conferencing, messaging, data warehousing, file transfer
and streaming capabilities.
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HP
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Server
white paper
Manageability
white paper
Trust
white paper
IrDA
white paper
eServices
white paper
Finding
peers white paper
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P2P Internet Business Servers
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Hughes Network Systems
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SPACEWAY
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Now defunct Established SPACEWAY(TM) Peer-to-Peer Application Center
of Excellence to develop its next generation broadband satellite
platform.
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I5digital
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www.i5digital.com/
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Now Defunct. Project
Pandango was to allow users to conduct P2P searches on the
Web. More . . .
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IBM
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www-4.ibm.com/
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IBM is no longer marketing SanFrancisco its a Java-based
suite of business process components and services that could
be used for P2P applications.
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Ikimbo
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www.ikimbo.com/
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Now defunct Ikimbo’s Omniprise technology creates global, group-to-group
communication and file sharing networks inside and outside
the firewall.
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iMaestro
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www.imaestro.com
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Now Defunct. iMaestro
Interact was a P2P auction network.
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iMesh
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www.imesh.com/
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Distributed file sharing and collaboration.
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Improv Technologies
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www.improvtechnologies.com/
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Now defunct The Cirquet™ distributed computing platform provides a
framework for Java beans. Joined the Sun JXTA effort. Uses
the JXTA discovery mechanism to locate other Cirquet peers
and uses both the grouping and security mechanisms of JXTA
to control access to resources.
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Imulet
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www.imulet.com/
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Now defunct The iMulet Platform is a powerful and flexible architecture
and a collection of 100 modules that allow building internet
solutions. Uses JXTA technology.
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IMXP
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ietf.org/
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Now defunct A draft XML standard for instant messaging.
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Infobot
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www.infobot.org/
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A Perl module that connects to an Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
server, joins channels, and begins accumulating “factoids.”
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Intel
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Intel
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Intel formed a P2P working group that is meeting with some
resistance from developers. Nonetheless, they are behind
the movement in a big way, having saved hundreds of millions
using P2P over the last decade.
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Interface Dynamics
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www.interfacedynamics.com/
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WuWu is Peer Presence Framework that enables applications
such as collaboration, Instant Messaging, and remote control.
It employs a sophisticated “third peer” method of overcoming
firewall and NAT P2P limitations.
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Internet2®
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www.internet2.edu/
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A consortium led by over 180 universities working in partnership
with industry and government to develop and deploy advanced
network applications and technologies.
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Intralinks
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www.intralinks.com/
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P2P collaboration environment.
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Invisible Worlds
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www.invisibleworlds.com/
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Now defunct. Developed
Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol (BEEP) (now known as
BXXP) for P2P applications, now an Internet
Draft.
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ItsKarma.com
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www.itskarma.com
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A startup readying a P2P auction platform.
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Jabber
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www.jabber.org/
www.jabber.com/
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A cross-platform, XML-based instant messaging system that
supports up to 200,000 concurrent users. Recently inked
deal with Disney. More . . .
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Jibe
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www.jibe.ws/
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Jibe enables enterprise P2P commerce. On Aug. 1, Jibe will
release a beta software product that will enable companies
to search and share distributed databases via private P2P
hubs.More . . .
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jiFT
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sourceforge.net/projects/jift/
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The Java interface to FastTrack (used by Kazaa and Morpheus)
or "jiFT isn't FastTrack". A port of the giFT daemon from
C to Java.
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Jini
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www.jini.org/
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P2P networking for devices, from Sun. Each device provides
services that other devices in the community may use.
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Jnutella
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www.jnutella.org
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Japanese Gnutella community.
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Jungle Monkey
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www.junglemonkey.net/
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A Unix-based distributed file-sharing service.
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JXTA
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www.jxta.org/
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Sun’s JXTA effort aims to be the first P2P stack.
More . . .
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