P2P in 2001

nihilist_1137 writes: "Zdnet is reporting that P2P is becoming more used in business. "It's now over two years since a few underground song-swapping services put peer-to-peer technology firmly at the forefront of the IT agenda... A look back at some of the more significant P2P stories of 2001 shows that -- although not a new concept -- P2P is starting to assume a very important role in the corporate space, as tech giants scramble to succeed in this new market."" Hard to believe that the Napster battles have been going on for two years now.

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Intel's P2P library

[Pinball Wizard]

I didn't know that Intel had released a P2P library until I read this article. There's no link to the library from the article, so I looked it up. Turns out the library is released under the BSD library and is hosted on Sourceforge.

Re:Intel's P2P library

[burris]

This is the first P2P application that I've seen with encryption built into it.

You should get out more... ;-) Seriously, Freenet and MojoNation are loaded with crypto, as is BitTorrent.

Besides, Intel's library isn't an application.

Burris

Re:Intel's P2P library

[Speed Racer]

I guess Kazaa has slipped in under your radar screen.

Preposterous.

[jordan]

P2P is an abstract model for communication between 2 or more points. It exists in our phone switching networks (~100 years), Internet (~25 years), most common network-based software (~20 years), etc. Does your company use sendmail, or maybe even Exchange? SMTP is a P2P transport. Perhaps you read news? NNTP is a P2P transport.

The notion that Napster (or any other file sharing system) can lay claim to any part of the P2P phenomenon, aside from raising awareness, is absolutely ridiculous. The notion that P2P is just now starting to gain a foothold in businesses is fiendeshly drug-induced.

The hype still continues. Ignorance pervades. What they really mean is "distributed", and even then most reporters are still talking out of their asses.

--jordan