I recently saw Rick McGeer from HP talk at our LONI Forum conference. Rick is on the steering committe for PlanetLab and his talk centered around it. At first I was skeptical, to say the least. I smelled snake-oil. However, after looking into it more, I do believe that this concept does have value. I do not think it will become the "next wave" on the Internet, but I can certainly see where organizations might leverage this technology.
The rub, of course, is always security, control, and accountability. Whenever you start talking about distributing intellectual property around the net, many companies will go apoplectic.
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I recently saw Rick McGeer from HP talk at our LONI Forum conference. Rick is on the steering committe for PlanetLab and his talk centered around it. At first I was skeptical, to say the least. I smelled snake-oil. However, after looking into it more, I do believe that this concept does have value. I do not think it will become the "next wave" on the Internet, but I can certainly see where organizations might leverage this technology. The rub, of course, is always security, control, and accountability. Whenever you start talking about distributing intellectual property around the net, many companies will go apoplectic.