...then you'll be interested in our
open source project over at
jtrix.org.
We're building a platform for all kinds of adaptive
and highly decentralised systems.
You can buy in external services for your
application, including hosting, so your apps
can grow organically across the Net as needed.
Unlike Anthill we're addressing a wider
variety of needs (in fact, any kind of
app you want to scale up), so you can build
all kinds of things on top of Jtrix,
from traditional P2P (Freenet,
Gnutella, etc) to other apps needing scaling
and security
(Web-based mail, Passport-a-like, and so on).
We've been
at it 18 months now and have things like an
HTTP server and servlet engine which work in this
environment.
It's great to see these kind of frameworks
growing in popularity.
You can make money with open source just like
everyone's making money with HTTP. A whole
industry has grow up around that, albeit with
many casualities. And most people here would
agree that
layering proprietary protocols
would be a bad thing.
My company is taking the same approach with
the Jtrix
platform
which is a completely open source way to
implement Web Services. We're a commercial
business and need to make money, but if
others make money too, then great! Our use
of the LGPL means they don't even have to pay
us.
We don't have ambitions to take over the
world, but want to create an industry. Open
protocols might mean you can't have it all,
but they do mean you can have an awful lot.
And that's more than most people have now.
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Unlike Anthill we're addressing a wider variety of needs (in fact, any kind of app you want to scale up), so you can build all kinds of things on top of Jtrix, from traditional P2P (Freenet, Gnutella, etc) to other apps needing scaling and security (Web-based mail, Passport-a-like, and so on).
We've been at it 18 months now and have things like an HTTP server and servlet engine which work in this environment. It's great to see these kind of frameworks growing in popularity.
Nik
My company is taking the same approach with the Jtrix platform which is a completely open source way to implement Web Services. We're a commercial business and need to make money, but if others make money too, then great! Our use of the LGPL means they don't even have to pay us.
We don't have ambitions to take over the world, but want to create an industry. Open protocols might mean you can't have it all, but they do mean you can have an awful lot. And that's more than most people have now.
Nik.