Company or Effort

Web Site

Description

Kalepa Networks

www.kalepa.com/

A startup currently in stealth mode, Kalepa will provide distributed content networks.

Kanari

www.kanari.com/

French P2P knowledge management company.

KaZaA

www.kazaa.com/

One of the file sharing services vying to replace the crippled Napster. More than 2.8 million downloads and hundreds of thousands of simultaneous users. Based on technology from FastTrack, which owns it.

Killdara

www.killdara.com

Makes hardware and systems for P2P messaging.

KnowNow

www.knownow.com/

KnowNow specializes in collaboration and Web applications, and has a technology that holds open the connection between a Web browser and a Web server. Has demonstrated a voting application.

Kontiki, FKA Zodiac Networks

www.kontiki.com/

A startup in stealth mode previously known as Zodiac. Started by Netscape alums and backed by Barksdale and Andreessen. Apparently will build a P2P content distribution network.

Lightshare

www.lightshare.com

Lightshare enables e-commerce on peer-to-peer networks. More . . .

LightSurf

www.lightsurf.com/

Phillipe Kahn’s company. Java-based P2P wireless multimedia, including video.

LiquidNet

www.liquidnet.com/

A P2P securities trading system that enables fund managers to aggregate and disguise their trades.
More . . .

Livermore Software Technology

www.lstc.com/

LS-DYNA is capable of simulating complex real world problems and is running car crash simulations on P2P networks at Ford Motor Co.

MangoSoft 

www.mangosoft.com/

MangoSoft produces Cachelink, a software-based web caching product, and Mangomind, a business user file-sharing application.

Manila 

manila.userland.com/

A content management system from Userland that can be used to create Weblogs.

McAfee AsaP (FKA MyCIO)

www.mcafeeasap.com/

A distributed antivirus network formerly known as MyCIO, but recently folded back into parent McAfee as McAfeeASAP. More . . .

Meerkat: An Open Wire Service

www.oreillynet.com/meerkat/

Meerkat is an XML-based syndicated content reader from publisher O’Reilly. It reports news on P2P issues. Good companion service to O’Reilly’s OpenP2P.com.

Mercury Prime

www.mercuryprime.com/

Razius Express does secure instant messaging and file transfer.

Mesh Networks

www.meshnetworks.com/

Wireless network technology that allows direct communication between peer wireless devices.

Microsoft

www.microsoft.com

Microsoft’s .NET initiative enables creation of P2P systems.

Mithral Communications & Design Inc. 

www.mithral.com/

Mithral’s Cosm Phase 1 is a set of cross-platform open protocols and applications designed to allow distributed computers to work together on projects.

Mobot

www.mobot.com

Distributed P2P search engine.

Mobular Technologies

www.mobular.com/

Email search engine.

Mojo Nation 

www.mojonation.net/

Mojo Nation enables publishing and sharing of any kind of data and is creating a digital marketplace for the exchange of idle disk space, bandwidth, and CPU cycles. Users must contribute “mojo” in order to download.

The Mind Electric

www.themindelectric.com/

The GLUE™ distributed Web services platform is based on open standards, including XML, HTTP, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI and WAP.

MusicCity.com

www.musiccity.com/

Makers of Morpheus, one of the services vying to replace the crippled Napster. Based on FastTrack technology.

MyFileShare

www.myfileshare.com

PeerGenius™ is a Digital Content Distribution Management ™ (DCDM ™ ) file sharing solution.

Napster 

www.napster.com/

The Granddaddy of the current P2P wave. It is primarily a music file sharing service.

NetActive

www.netactive.com/

Content and digital rights management services

NetBrilliant

www.netbrilliant.com/

A distributed search engine by Tenebril.

NetLert

www.netlert.com/

Secure Java-based Instant Messaging, with broadcast and polling capabilities. Allows central administration and integrates with existing directories.

Netrana

www.netrana.com/

Spot Dealmaker lets buyers and sellers step through business rules and facilitates transactions P2P.

Neurogrid

www.neurogrid.com/

NeuroGrid allows the user to store data in a web-like fashion, associating bookmarks (files/documents) with multiple keywords. User activity is observed and the associations refined to reflect the way in which the keywords are used NeuroGrid P2P search engine is an application of the underlying NeuroGrid Learning technology, plus NeuroGrid routing technology.

New Productivity Initiative

www.newproductivity.org/

An industry effort by system vendors, independent software vendors, and service providers to develop Distributed Resource Management (DRM), which ensures that disparate computing resources are united to optimize the use of the network as a computing platform.

Nextpage

www.nextpage.com/

The NXT 3 e-Content Platform enables distributed content serving.

Novient

www.novient.com/

iServerNet collaboration platform enables the sharing of people, projects, and knowledge. Accenture is a client.

Nullsoft

www.shoutcast.com/

Audio publishing system SHOUTcast is Nullsoft's Free Winamp-based distributed streaming audio system.

Objectivity

www.objectivity.com/

Distributed database systems.

OceanStore

oceanstore.cs.berkeley.edu/

UC Berkeley project sponsored by IBM to enable the interconnection of up to a billion computers.

Oculus Technologies

www.oculustech.com/

Secure, P2P file sharing oriented to design collaboration.

OFSI

sourceforge.net/projects/ofsi

Open File Sharing Initiative is developing P2P file sharing.

Ohaha 

www.ohaha.com/

Now defunct It was an open source network of P2P networks, originating from the Ukraine.

Omron

www.omron.com/

Japanese electronics giant that has created an agent-based middleware system for Java -- JUMON -- that's designed to work on cell phones and PDAs. In a joint project with Bandai to enable P2P games.

OnShare

www.onshare.com/

Now defunct File sharing platform with patented token security system.

OnSystems, Inc. 

www.onsystems.com/

Formerly InterFriendly, OnSystems created Tijit, which develops Virtual Internet Networks (VINs) that create secure virtual networks.

OpenCOLA 

www.opencola.com/

openCOLA (Open Collaborative Object Lookup Architecture) is an open-source autonomous and collaborative agent that collects, analyzes, and delivers dynamic content. Their Swarmcast project does content distribution and Folders is a file sharing system.

OpenDesign (FKA What U Want)

www.opendesign.com/

Software tools for P2P applications.

OpenNap 

opennap.sourceforge.net/

An open source version of the proprietary Napster server.

OpenP2P

www.openp2p.com/

O’Reilly’s information portal about P2P.

P2P.net

www.p2p.net/

Information portal about the P2P movement.

P2Ptracker

www.p2ptracker.com/

Information portal about the P2P movement.

Parabon Computation 

www.parabon.com/

Parabon’s products are Pioneer, a distributed computing application, and Frontier, a platform for secure distributed computing for "compute-intensive" projects. Currently powering some cancer research. More . . .

Parlano

www.parlano.com/

Collaboration software Parlano MindAlign.

PeerClub (Korea)

www.peerclub.com/

Developing P2P based file-sharing program called Solomon.

PeerGenius

www.peergenius.com/

P2P file distribution with Digital Rights Management.

PeerMetrics (FKA Exelion)

www.peermetrics.com/

Creators of the Open Source PeerBrowser, as well as the Rabbit Protocol and the Peer System, a framework for developing P2P applications.

Peernetics

www.xtranetics.net/

Portal with subwebs for investors and P2P entrepreneurs.

PeerProfits

www.whimsical.net/peerprofits/

Information portal about the P2P movement.

PeerToPeerCentral

www.peertopeercentral.com/

Information portal about the P2P movement. Provides original research and analysis.

Peer-to-Peer Working Group

www.peer-to-peerwg.org/

Non-profit effort organized to promote best-known practices based on peer-to-peer computing.

Peertal

www.peertal.com/

Information portal about the P2P movement.

Piper

www.bioinformatics.org/piper/

An Open Source distributed workflow system.

Platform Computing

www.platform.com/

Launched in June, 2000, LSF ActiveCluster extends Platform's core Load Sharing Facility (LSF) which optimally manages job processing by spreading the workload across the network, orchestrating all resources, regardless of differences in hardware architecture or operating system. The company has strategic partnerships with Compaq, HP, IBM, SGI and Sun Microsystems.

PLATFORMedia

www.platformedia.com/

An intranet file searching platform plus distributed Excel spreadsheet calculation.

Plebio 

www.plebio.com/

A search engine that searches a peer-to-peer search network.

Pocit Labs

www.pocit.com/

Swedish maker of BlueTalk™, a Bluetooth-based P2P network platform.

Pointera 

www.pointera.com/

The Pointera Sharing Engine allows users to find, download, and share any file format as well as doing a meta-search which automatically checks other search engines as well.

Popular Power 

www.popularpower.com/

Now defunct. Along with SETI@home, Popular Power was the poster child for distributed computing. Now it’s one of the first to cease operations. They are still running their non-profit projects, donating their users’ cycles to model flu virus. Plans to eventually charge for them and compensate users apparently fell through.

Porivo Technologies, Inc. 

www.porivo.com/

PeerReview is a distributed testing application; Porivo PEER(sm) is distributed computing technology. Establishing a computing exchange. More . . .

Proksim Software

www.proksim.com/

Developing P2P infrastructure, primarily for online games.

Publius 

www.cs.nyu.edu/~waldman/publius/

An anonymous Web publishing system that inserts a layer of encryption that protects the identity of a publisher. A project at NYU.

Quiq

www.quiq.com/

Collaborative customer service. Used in AskJeeves portal.

Quick Com

www.quickcom.com/

e-Courier™ uses IP Multicasting and JMS to support Guaranteed Quality of Service (GQoS) compliant, peer-to-peer networking over IP networks. More . . . 

Quicksilver

www.qsmessage.com/

Quicksilver Instant Messenger is an HTML-based Instant Message application that can use SSL to be secure. Involves no installation or downloadable code.

Qumatrix

www.qumatrix.com/

A startup in stealth mode, Qumatrix apparently will build a P2P content distribution network. Started by former employees of Web caching company, Akamai.

Radio Userland

radio.userland.com/

A "personal radio station," music organizer and player as well as a collaborative outliner, a writing tool that organizes stories, directories, presentations.

RDF 

www.w3.org/Metadata/Activity.html

The World Wide Web Consortium’s, Resource Description Framework, is a "declarative language and provides a standard way for using XML to represent metadata in the form of statements about properties and relationships of items on the Web."

RedSwoosh

www.redswoosh.com/

A startup in stealth mode. Founded by Travis Kalanick and the ex-Scour development team.

Resilient Edge

www.resilientedge.com/

The Resilient Platform and the Edge Desktop provide a platform for developers to create P2P applications. Uses JXTA.

ROKU 

www.roku.com/

Now defunct. Roku Platform connected information together in "context” to view, use, and share information across all devices and networks. HP was reselling.

RSS 0.91 

backend.userland.com/rss091

Rich Site Summary 0.91 is a lightweight syndication format for distributing news headlines that originated at Netscape.

RSS 1.0 

www.egroups.com/

RDF Site Summary is an XML-based lightweight modular multipurpose extensible metadata description and syndication format. RSS 1.0 is a new version of RSS 0.91 that supports extensions.

Sandia National Laboratories 

www.sandia.gov/

Developed a cyberagent intrusion protection application, still in the laboratory stage, which functions as a multiagent collective -- a distributed program.

Science Communications

www.sciencecommunications.com

Now know as Mobular Technologies. Search engine for email.

Scour

www.scour.com/

Assets acquired by CenterSpan. Music sharing service.

SETI@home: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence 

setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/

Along with the now defunct Popular Power, SETI@home is the poster child of distributed computing. It allows anyone with a computer and an Internet connection to take part in the search for extraterrestrial signals. It runs as a screensaver.
More . . .

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) 

www.w3.org/TR/SOAP/

Originally developed by Microsoft and now a W3C effort, Simple Object Access Protocol) is a lightweight, XML-based, protocol for exchange of information in a decentralized, distributed environment.

SiteScape

www.sitescape.com/

Collaboration environment offering workflow, online discussions; shared documents and files; chat; shared calendars; and messaging.

Static 

www.static.com/

Now called BlueFalcon Networks. Static Streamer™ reduces cutting bandwidth and server costs for streaming media or large file downloads using a distributed network and reflector technology that creates virtual bandwidth.

Sun Microsystems

www.sun.com/software/gridware/

Sun Grid Engine finds a pool of idle resources and harnesses it productively.

Texar

www.texar.com/

SecureRealms secure P2P file sharing. s-Peer (Open Source) includes policy-based access controls, unique digital identities, security enhancements, and integrated communications tools.

TeleMessage

www.telemessage.com/

Instant Messaging, wired or wireless, to send, receive, and forward electronic voice, text, images or any other kind of document globally.

Tenebril

www.tenebril.com/

Parent of NetBrilliant P2P search engine.

Terazima

www.terazima.com/

TeraPlatform is a distributed computing framework that allows enterprises to rapidly build P2P applications.

theSupplyChain.com

www.thesupplychain.com/

ScEngine under development for supply chain P2P messaging.

Thinkstream

www.thinkstream.com/

Created a distributed information and commerce engine and a Public Information Network. 

Toadnode

www.toadnode.com/

A P2P file-sharing program with multi-language support.

Traceloop

www.traceloop.com/

A distributed traceroute community from Dashbit. Each member runs a client that will remotely ping other members on request to measure network response.

TurboLinux

www.turbolinux.com/products/enf/

EnFuzion cross-platform distributed computing application.

Ubero 

www.ubero.com/

Ubero stands for "universal binding and execution of redundant objects,” a distributed object computing platform.

United Devices, Inc.

www.ud.com/

Distributed computing. Currently helping with cancer research.

Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) 

uddi.org/

Universal Description, Discovery and Integration is a registry initiative lead by Ariba, IBM, and Microsoft to create a platform-independent, open framework for describing services, discovering businesses, and integrating business services using the Internet.

Uprizer

www.uprizer.com/

A startup in stealth mode. Recently received $4M in funding from Intel and others.

uRoam

www.uroam.com/

Remote file access targeted to business, particularly wireless. More . . .

Ventrada

www.ventrada.com/

Ventrada™ is an application that gives mobile professionals access to all the files in all their storage locations, no matter where they are.

ViralSounds

www.viralsounds.com

A startup in stealth mode.

Vtel

www.vtel.com/

TurboCast Web is Webcast streaming technology for live events over an internal network or the Internet, and also can store any multimedia content for convenient, on-demand playback.

vTrails 

www.vtrails.com/

Uses Full Duplex Packet Cascading (FDPC), a multicasting technique that relieves Web site congestion. More . . .

WebDAV 

www.webdav.org/

Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol which allows users to collaboratively edit and manage files on remote web servers. Supported by Adobe and Macromedia.

WebHelp

www.webhelp.com/

P2P customer support offering wired and wireless chat.

WebV2 

www.webv2.com/

PeerBeans™is an application platform and network infrastructure that extends to B2B collaboration between peers in the supply chain. Incubated by Siemens, who is testing PeerBeans.

Wannafree

http://wannafree.com/eng/index.php3/

An anonymous, P2P service for untraceable speech.

WorldOS Corporation 

www.worldos.com/

An on-again-off-again application server for decentralized applications now at rev 0.9. It was Open Source, but apparently a three-man show. WorldOS now does P2P consulting and the product is renamed Goa.

WorldStreet

www.worldstreet.com/

WorldStreet Net offers distributed information distribution, workflow, and contact management for securities traders. Customers include Merrill Lynch, JP Morgan, and Deutsche Bank. More . . .

XDegrees

www.xdegrees.com/

A startup in stealth mode that claims to be working on a P2P metadata product.

XMethods

www.xmethods.com/

A portal listing projects using SOAP, including some using P2P.

XML-RPC 

www.xml-rpc.org/

A precursor to SOAP, it uses XML and remote procedure calls to communicate information from one server to another.

XNS (eXtensible Name Service)

www.xns.org/

An open protocol and open-source platform for universal addressing promising a permanent identifier for a data container. Also XNS is a platform for "web agents" to negotiate the exchange, linking, and synchronization of information among different parties.

Xobjex

www.xobjex.com/

Lightweight, object-oriented, distributed computing platform.

Yaga

www.yaga.com/

Secure file sharing.

Zembu

www.zembu.com/

Distributed architecture for database-driven applications.

ZeroPaid

www.zeropaid.com/

Maintains a file sharing portal listing file sharing applications.

Zion

www.zion.com/

JBuddy SDK is a java API for interfacing to AIM, MSN, ICQ and Yahoo instant messaging services.

Zodiac Networks

www.zodiacnetworks.com/

A startup in stealth mode now known as Kontiki. Started by Netscape alums and backed by Barksdale and Andreessen. Apparently will build a P2P content distribution network.