Kendra List
This should start the shaking of a few cages. Although this is the first
time I've seen it on the wire, I know they've been looking at it for some
years. Hello, Akamai, Digital Island, Mirror Image and all those other edge
serving tech stocks! Maybe more attention should be paid to these server
cluster guys as they might actually have a bandwidth ready network once all
the p2p connections get populated, that is if they can stay afloat long
enough!
John McHugh
"Intel is planning to release a corporate peer-to-peer application inspired
by Napster.
Doug Busch, IT director of Intel, said the company has developed a P2P
technology called Share and Learn inspired by the controversial
music-swapping service.
He told silicon.com: "We got the idea from Napster as we had a big demand to
distribute large multimedia files for various departments but the WAN
required to do that was very expensive."
You can get the whole story here:
http://www.silicon.com/bin/bladerunner?30REQEVENT=&REQAUTH=21046&14001REQSUB
=REQINT1=48712