This directory contains listings of P2P companies that businesses should be aware of. The sites were picked for their relevance to business use of P2P technology. For the most part, sites devoted to consumer-to-consumer (C2C) file sharing are not included.
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Company or Effort
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Web Site
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Description
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.Net
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www.microsoft.com/
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Microsoft’s .NET effort is based on networked components,
which are inherently P2P. In addition, its FarSite
project is developing a distributed file system.
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100X
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www.100x.com
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Now defunct. A startup
accelerator and software development company for P2P businesses.
Buzzpad is an investee. Site down 8/2/01.
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1stWorks
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www.1stworks.com/
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Collaborative P2P groupware network. hotComm provides secure
interactive access or exchange of text, voice or files using
the 1stWorks Peer Network. Any user may be client or server
or both. The active link feature, IM-Live, delivers secure
and serverless Java-based Instant Messaging. ezPeer
provides dynamic address redirection for Web sites hosted
with dynamic IP or port addresses.
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24Link
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www.24link.com
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Now defunct. P2P secure
collaboration software.
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2AM
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www.2am.com/newweb/speer.asp
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Now defunct. StreamingPeer™
delivers rich media content safely, quickly and cost-effectively.
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2Bridge
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www.2bridge.com/
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Now defunct. Personal Portal Server can connect to other peer-to-peer
portal and content servers. 2Share browser-based software
uses XML and "pluglets".
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2K
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devius.cs.uiuc.edu/2k//
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Now defunct. An open source, distributed adaptable grid operating system
being developed by the University of Illinois.
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2nd Order
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www.2ndorder.com/
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Now defunct.
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2Way
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www.2way.com/
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Now defunct. A behind-the-firewall secure Instant Messaging solution,
2WAY IM requires password authentication of all participants,
and provides administrative control over user connections
and permissions. Uses SSL encryption and also enables back-up
of corporate messaging history to offline storage.
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2Wrongs
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www.2wrongs.com/
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Now defunct. Acquired by Cyveillance®. Omnipeer™ can search designated
directories and browser caches on every users' PC within
an organization. A knowledge management oriented solution.
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3Path
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www.3path.com/
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A priority, permission-based, and fully outsourced peer-to-peer
content delivery service for all digital content. Basically
a variation on push technology from investor BackWeb.
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Acceloop
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www.acceloop.com/
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Acceloop Streaming Server Accelerator does P2P content
distribution by assembling peer content delivery networks.
Acceloop also provides new transfer protocols to enable
higher content availability and reliable delivery.
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ACD Systems
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www.acdsystems.com/
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Express Server™ Instant Messaging server and client for
secure Instant Messaging.
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Actedge
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www.actedge.com/
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Defunct .
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Adaptinet
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www.adaptinet.com/
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Now defunct. Adaptive platform for developing distributed applications
into open-source. Adaptinet SDK now available for download.
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AdrenaMail
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www.adrenamail.com/
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Enables private labeled file sharing networks.
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Aeolus Research
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www.aeolusresearch.com/
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Consulting firm experienced in installation of Beowulf
clusters.
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Affiniti
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www.affinitigroup.com/
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LiveCache forms the platform for LiveMessenger, a peer-to-peer
messaging product.
White paper.
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AgentWare
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www.agentware.net/
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Syndicator, ™ is a software development platform that integrates
applications
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Aimster
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www.aimster.com/
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Now defunct. Combines Napster-like file sharing with the AOL Instant
Messaging service.
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AllCast.com, FKA DiffuseNetwork
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www.allcast.com/
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P2P Content Delivery Network distributing server and client
software for free. More . .
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ALPINE Network
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cubicmetercrystal.com/alpine/
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A peer based Open Source application and network infrastructure
designed for decentralized information location/discovery.
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Amaya Web Editor/Browser
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www.w3.org/Amaya/Amaya.html
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A complete web browsing and authoring environment that
implements collaborative annotation. From W3C.
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Amoweba
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www.amoweba.com/
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Human-Links is a peer-to-peer search engine that can index
the Web in real-time. Paris-based.
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Antepo
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www.antepo.com/
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Messaging platform, including IM, based on Jabber and allowing
integration of disparate devices.
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Applied MetaComputing
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www.appliedmeta.com/
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Renamed Avaki.
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Athenium
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www.athenium.com/
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TEAMThink Product Suite, a Performance Improvement Software
System. Enables P2P learning networks.
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Avaki
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www.avaki.com
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Formerly Applied Metacomputing. Avaki 2.0 is a computing
environment that can find needed resources, coordinate and
execute required processes, and return results employing
scheduling, data management, fault tolerance, site autonomy,
and a wide range of security options. Boeing, Harvard Medical
School, the Naval Research Laboratory and NASA are clients.
JXTA
White paper.
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Bad Blue
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www.badblue.com/
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Bad Blue is a web-based file sharing and Web publishing
service that includes a tiny version of the Microsoft IIS
Web server.
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Bantu
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www.bantu.com/
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Bantu Messenger is a secure Java-based Instant Messaging
system that enables broadcast notifications and works on
wireless devices.
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BaseOne
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www.boic.com
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Develops programming tools and middleware for developing
P2P applications using patent-pending technologies to connect
to existing databases. The company's Base/1 Internet Server
(BIS) and other products are all built upon their Rich Client
Architecture. Client Deutsche Bank uses BaseOne to create
a virtual supercomputer.
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BEEP
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www.beepcore.org/
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Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol is an XML-based messaging
framework for building application protocols
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Beowulf
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www.beowulf-underground.org/
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Distributed computing project started in 1994.
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Biap
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www.biap.com/
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GOtrieve offers personalized, automated information retrieval
which captures content from anywhere on the Internet and
delivers to any Web-enabled device.
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BigChampagne
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www.bigchampagne.com/
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Does Instant Message marketing to users of Napster and
other music-sharing services.
More . . .
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Biz2peer
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www.biz2peer.com/
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Developing a P2P platform.
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Black Diamond Products
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www.blackdiamond.co.za/
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SockeToome is a file sharing and queuing program. It depends
on DNS, however, to access target computers.
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Blogger
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www.blogger.com/
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A Weblog application that allows you to easily publish
content to the Web. Interestingly, Blogger got its users
to chip in for more servers, voluntarily.
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Blue Air Networks
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www.blueairnetworks.com/
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Now defunct. PartSage™ is a supply chain collaboration application that
includes PartSage Prompt, a P2P collaboration application.
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Blue Falcon Networks (FKA Static)
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www.bluefalcon.com/
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Now defunct. Formerly known as Static. Streamer™ reduces bandwidth and
server costs for streaming media or large file downloads
using a distributed network and reflector technology that
creates virtual bandwidth. Signed Radio Free Virgin as client.
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Blue Tiger Networks
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www.bluetiger.com/
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Acquired by OpenWebs. BTN Exchange Suite lets customers
build P2P trading networks.
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Bluetooth
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www.bluetooth.com
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A peer-to-peer wireless networking protocol originally
developed by Ericsson. Bluetooth devices are starting to
come into the market now. For more information on Bluetooth,
see the Geneer
Wireless White Paper.
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Bodetella
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www.felmlee.com/bodetella/
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File sharing Gnutella client for corporate intranets. Features
download resume.
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Braveway
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www.braveway.com/
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Author and manage newspaper classifieds from user desktop
PCs with use of negotiation features and transaction services.
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Brazil Project
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www.sun.com/research/brazil/
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This Web application framework effort from Sun links together
a variety of their technologies, from Java to Jini, as well
as wireless networking.
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BuyLink
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www.buylink.com/
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P2P catalog and purchasing distribution.
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Buzzpad (formerly Freeloads)
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www.buzzpad.com/
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Now defunct. Licenses its Buzzpad Platform software to developers and
IT departments. Claims 20 "Peer-to-Peer Synchs"
per second.
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Cantametrix
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www.cantametrix.com/
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Digital watermarking. MusicDNA™ stores a unique identifier
as a universal key in the Cantametrix Data Interchange.
Web site down 11/17/01.
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CareScience
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www.carescience.com/
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Health care focused data sharing.
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CenterSpan
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www.centerspan.com/
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Centerspan bought the assets of Scour, and has beta-released
the C2C file swapping service as apparently its only product.
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ChainCast Networks
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www.chaincast.com/
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ChainCast Content Delivery Platform does P2P media streaming.
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Chord Project
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pdos.lcs.mit.edu/chord/
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Chord is a flexible lookup primitive intended for use in
peer-to-peer environments. The Chord primitive maps keys
to servers in a decentralized manner.
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Cincro
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www.cincro.com/
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Cincro's patent-pending technology is based on advanced
distributed computing and visualization technologies. Looking
Glass™ presents a zoomable canvas where users can drag and
drop many different data types
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Climate Dynamics
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www.climate-dynamics.rl.ac.uk/
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Now defunct. Casino-21 is a climate simulation distributed computing
project. Web site down 11/17/01.
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Clip2.com
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www.clip2.com/
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Now Defunct.Portal source
for technical information on P2P file sharing networks. See AskMeHelpdesk.com where many of the experts from the old site now answer questions.
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Collanos
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www.collanos.com/
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Collanos Workplace is a Peer-to-Peer 2.0 teamwork solution streamlining any dispersed teams' collaboration efforts, allowing members to get on board instantly. It is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. |
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ComputePower
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www.computepower.com/
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Compute Power Market project uses an economics approach
in managing computational resources.
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Commtag
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www.commtag.com/
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Now defunct. The unplug+play peer-to-peer wireless platform unifies
Bluetooth Personal Area Networking and GPRS/3G Wide Area
Networking, using the mobile phone as the gateway between
the PAN and the WAN.
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Condor
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www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/
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Condor is a High Throughput Computing environment based
on a layered architecture that provides a powerful and flexible
suite of Resource Management services to sequential and
parallel applications.
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Consilient
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www.consilient.com/
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Distributed computing infrastructure that aggregates any
content and automates any business process.
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Correlate
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www.correlate.com/
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Correlate lets users create and share KnowledgeMaps that
graphically organize information.
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CPIM
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ietf.org/
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Now defunct. The Common Profile for Instant Messaging (CPIM) specification
defines a number of operations to be supported and criteria
to be satisfied for interworking diverse instant messaging
protocols.
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CriticalPath
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www.cp.net
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Acquired PeerLogic. InJoin™ BATCH (formerly
LiveContent BATCH). Provides batch job execution environment
on UNIX, featuring job step management and recovery, priority
classes, conditioned execution, job monitoring and more.
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Curl
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www.curl.com
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Curl creates a content delivery platform. Founded by the
father of the Web, Tim Berners-Lee.
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Cytaq
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www.cytaq.com/
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Now defunct. Creator of Resource Router™, Universal Sharing Environment
(USE™), Universal Query Language (UQL™), and other distributed
platform-enabling technologies
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Datasynapse
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www.datasynapse.com/
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LiveCluster™ is a distributed, CPU-sharing system that
offers CPU cycles for pay. Participants are paid in “flooz”
credits they can use to buy on the Web.
More . . .
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DirectP2P
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sourceforge.net/projects/directp2p/
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DirectP2P is a library of modules that interact with various
P2P networks such as Gnutella, OpenNap, Kazaa/Morpheus,
and eDonkey2000. It presents a unified interface (or API)
so that anyone may write their own client.
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Dcypher.net
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www.dcypher.net/
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Now defunct. Former name of Process Tree/Distributed Science.
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Distributed.net
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distributed.net/
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At first a non-profit, Distributed.net has allied with
United Devices to provide distributed computing resources.
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Distributed Science
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www.distributedscience.com/
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Now defunct. ProcessTree
ran a commercial super-computing network of 156,468 computers.
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Dotcast |
www.dotcast.com |
Creating a national high-speed digital network for the distribution of digital entertainment, interactive services, and multimedia communications. |
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