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.
The sites were picked for their relevance to business use of P2P technology. Sites devoted to consumer-to-consumer (C2C) file sharing are not included. See also our listing of Non-Commercial P2P Efforts, which is a subset of this directory. All links were visited and supplementary material was added in Q3, 2006.
|
Company or Effort
|
Web Site
|
Description
|
|
The Art of Service
|
theartofservice.com
|
The Art of Service's Distributed computing predictive analytics report evaluates technologies and applications (including MoneyBee) in terms of their business impact, adoption rate and maturity level to help users decide where and when to invest.
|
|
Kalepa Networks
|
www.kalepa.com/
|
Now defunct Kalepa's Distributed Discovery software is as an enterprise
solution for managing distributed resources, including databases.
|
|
Kanari
|
www.kanari.com/
|
Now defunct French P2P knowledge management company.
|
|
KaZaA
|
www.kazaa.com/
|
One of the file sharing services vying to replace the crippled
Napster. More than 2.8 million downloads and hundreds of
thousands of simultaneous users. Based on technology from
FastTrack, which owns it.
|
|
Keynote
|
www.keynote.com/
|
Keynote purchased Envive. Solutions use P2P to test Web
site performance and service levels. Maintains a performance
index of top Web sites. More . . .
|
|
Killdara
|
www.killdara.com
|
Makes hardware and systems for P2P messaging and grid computing.
Killdara's Vitiris software products assist integrators
and software vendors to build communities of distributed
business applications.
|
|
KnowNow
|
www.knownow.com/
|
KnowNow specializes in collaboration and Web applications,
and has a technology that holds open the connection between
a Web browser and a Web server. Has demonstrated a voting
application.
|
|
Kontiki, FKA Zodiac Networks
|
www.kontiki.com/
|
Formerly known as Zodiac, Kontiki enables enterprises to
efficiently publish, secure, deliver and track digital media
to employees, partners, and customers.
Started by Netscape alums and backed by Barksdale and Andreessen.
|
|
Liberty Bloom
|
www.libertybloom.com
|
Liberty Bloom, co-founded by Sir Bob Geldof, has developed
Leadshare™, which it claims is P2P viral-email marketing
technology. It also offers free e-commerce, viral-email
tools, web pages, financial record keeping and security
controlled financial transactions.
|
|
Lightshare
|
www.lightshare.com
|
Lightshare enables e-commerce on peer-to-peer networks.
More . . .
|
|
LightSurf
|
www.lightsurf.com/
|
Phillipe Kahn’s company. Java-based P2P wireless multimedia,
including video.
|
|
LiquidNet
|
www.liquidnet.com/
|
A P2P securities trading system that enables fund managers
to aggregate and disguise their trades.
More . . .
|
|
Livermore Software Technology
|
www.lstc.com/
|
LS-DYNA is capable of simulating complex real world problems
and is running car crash simulations on P2P networks at
Ford Motor Co.
|
|
MangoSoft
|
www.mangosoft.com/
|
MangoSoft produces Cachelink, a software-based web caching
product, and Mangomind, a business user file-sharing application.
|
|
Manila
|
manila.userland.com/
|
A content management system from Userland that can be used
to create Weblogs.
|
|
McAfee AsaP (FKA MyCIO)
|
www.mcafeeasap.com/
|
A distributed antivirus network formerly known as MyCIO,
but recently folded back into parent McAfee as McAfeeASaP.
More . . .
|
|
Meerkat: An Open Wire Service
|
www.oreillynet.com/meerkat/
|
Meerkat is an XML-based syndicated content reader from
publisher O’Reilly. It reports news on P2P issues. Good
companion service to O’Reilly’s OpenP2P.com.
|
| Mera Enterprises |
www.meraenterprises.com |
A distributed P2P IP
Telephony system based on their Know-How xPEERience technology
which includes two major protocols: NAT Through-Path and Network
Search. The company claims to have solved NAT / Firewall problems
using their technology. |
|
Mercury Prime
|
www.mercuryprime.com/
|
Now defunct Razius Express does secure instant messaging and file transfer.
|
|
Mesh Networks
|
www.meshnetworks.com/
|
Wireless network technology that allows direct communication
between peer wireless devices.
|
|
Microsoft
|
www.microsoft.com
|
Microsoft’s .NET initiative enables creation of P2P systems.
|
|
Mithral Communications & Design Inc.
|
www.mithral.com/
|
Mithral’s Cosm Phase 1 is a set of cross-platform open
protocols and applications designed to allow distributed
computers to work together on projects. Partnered with Stanford
Alzheimer and Amyloidogenic Disease Research Program.
|
|
Mobot
|
www.mobot.com
|
Originally intended to be a distributed P2P search engine, now specializes in visual search for mobile phones.
|
|
Mobular Technologies
|
www.mobular.com/
|
Email search engine.
|
|
Mojo Nation
|
www.mojonation.net/
|
Now defunct Mojo Nation enables publishing and sharing of any kind
of data and is creating a digital marketplace for the exchange
of idle disk space, bandwidth, and CPU cycles. Users must
contribute “mojo” in order to download.
|
|
The Mind Electric
|
www.themindelectric.com/
|
The GLUE™ distributed Web services platform is based on
open standards, including XML, HTTP, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI and
WAP. GAIA™ is a superset of GLUE that supports service-oriented
architectures with features such as clustering, load balancing,
and fault tolerance. GAIA uses a P2P architecture for scalability.
|
|
MITRE
|
www.mitre.org/tech_transfer/mobilemesh/
|
Mobile Mesh is an Open Source project to enable P2P communication
between mobile nodes, and involves Mobile Mesh Link Discovery
Protocol, Mobile Mesh Routing Protocol, Mobile Mesh Border
Discovery Protocol.
|
|
Money Bee
|
uk.moneybee.net/start.asp
|
Now defunct MoneyBee enables users to receive valuable stock exchange
prognoses by taking part in the calculation.
|
|
MusicCity.com
|
www.musiccity.com/
|
Makers of Morpheus, one of the services vying to replace
the crippled Napster. Based on FastTrack technology.
|
|
MyFileShare
|
www.myfileshare.com
|
PeerGenius™ is a Digital Content Distribution Management
™ (DCDM™) file sharing solution.
|
|
Napster
|
www.napster.com/
|
The Granddaddy of the current P2P wave. It is primarily
a music file sharing service now seeking to transform to
a subscription model.
|
|
NetActive
|
www.netactive.com/
|
Now defunct Was content
and digital rights management services
|
|
NetBrilliant
|
www.netbrilliant.com/
|
A distributed search engine by Tenebril.
|
|
NetLert
|
www.netlert.com/
|
Secure Java-based Instant Messaging, with broadcast and
polling capabilities. Allows central administration and
integrates with existing directories.
|
|
Netrana
|
www.netrana.com/
|
Spot Dealmaker lets buyers and sellers step through business
rules and facilitates transactions P2P.
|
|
Neurogrid
|
www.neurogrid.com/
|
NeuroGrid allows the user to store data in a web-like fashion,
associating bookmarks (files/documents) with multiple keywords.
User activity is observed and the associations refined to
reflect the way in which the keywords are used NeuroGrid
P2P search engine is an application of the underlying NeuroGrid
Learning technology, plus NeuroGrid routing technology.
|
|
New Productivity Initiative
|
www.newproductivity.org/
|
An industry effort by system vendors, independent software
vendors, and service providers to develop Distributed Resource
Management (DRM), which ensures that disparate computing
resources are united to optimize the use of the network
as a computing platform.
|
|
Nextpage
|
www.nextpage.com/
|
NextPage Matrix™ creates a virtual collaborative space.
Licensed its software to Wolters Kluwer, one of the largest
global professional publishers.
|
|
Novient
|
www.novient.com/
|
Now defunct iServerNet collaboration platform enables the sharing of
people, projects, and knowledge. Accenture is a client.
|
|
Nullsoft
|
www.shoutcast.com/
|
Audio publishing system SHOUTcast is Nullsoft's Free Winamp-based
distributed streaming audio system.
|
|
Objectivity
|
www.objectivity.com/
|
Distributed database systems.
|
|
OceanStore
|
oceanstore.cs.berkeley.edu/
|
UC Berkeley project sponsored by IBM to enable the interconnection
of up to a billion computers.
|
|
Oculus Technologies
|
www.oculustech.com/
|
Secure, P2P file sharing oriented to design collaboration.
Uses JXTA technology for peer discovery services.
|
|
OFSI
|
sourceforge.net/projects/ofsi
|
Open File Sharing Initiative is developing P2P file sharing.
Project is apparently dormant.
|
|
Ohaha
|
www.ohaha.com/
|
Now defunct It was
an open source network of P2P networks, originating from
the Ukraine.
|
|
Omron
|
www.omron.com/news/n_040901-2.html
|
Now defunct Japanese electronics giant that has created an agent-based
middleware system for Java -- JUMON -- that's designed to
work on cell phones and PDAs. In a joint project with Bandai
to enable P2P games.
|
|
OnShare
|
www.onshare.com/
|
File sharing
platform with patented token security system.
|
|
OnSystems, Inc.
|
www.onsystems.com/
|
Formerly InterFriendly, OnSystems created Tijit, which
develops Virtual Internet Networks (VINs) that create secure
virtual networks based on their PeerSystem server.
|
| OP40 |
www.OP40.com/ |
DIS software enables
deployment of centralized Web-based applications to remote
servers, PC's, laptops, PDA's and more. |
|
OpenCOLA
|
www.opencola.com/
|
openCOLA (Open Collaborative Object Lookup Architecture)
Folders is an open-source autonomous and collaborative agent
that collects, analyzes, and delivers dynamic content. Their
Swarmcast project does content distribution and Folders
is a file sharing system.
|
|
Open4U
|
osweb1.open4u.co.kr/english.asp
|
P2P RFP-based trading system. Korean company.
|
|
OpenDesign (FKA What U Want)
|
www.opendesign.com/
|
Software tools for P2P applications.
|
|
OpenNap
|
opennap.sourceforge.net/
|
An open source version of the proprietary Napster server.
|
|
OpenP2P
|
www.openp2p.com/
|
O’Reilly’s information portal about P2P.
|
|
OpenWebs
|
www.openwebs.com/
|
Acquired Blue Tiger. OpenWebs is using its tradingNetwork™
platform to build industry-specific, P2P networks - virtual
trading communities - of retailers, distributors and manufacturers
to let them locate, buy and sell products with each other.
Offers a tire industry tradingNetwork.
|
|
P2P.net
|
www.p2p.net/
|
Now defunct
Was information portal about the P2P movement. OnSystems
bought the domain.
|
|
P2Ptracker
|
www.p2ptracker.com/
|
Information portal about the P2P movement.
|
|
Parabon Computation
|
www.parabon.com/
|
Parabon’s products are Pioneer, a distributed computing
application, and Frontier, a platform for secure distributed
computing for "compute-intensive" projects. Currently
powering some cancer research. More
. . .
|
|
Parlano
|
www.parlano.com/
|
Purchased by divineInterventures. Collaboration software
Parlano MindAlign.
|
|
PeerClub (Korea)
|
www.peerclub.com/
|
Now defunct Korean company developing P2P based file-sharing program
called Solomon.
|
|
PeerGenius
|
www.peergenius.com/
|
P2P file distribution with Digital Rights Management created
by myfileshare Inc.
|
|
PeerIntelligence
|
www.peerintelligence.com/
|
Information portal about the P2P movement.
|
|
PeerMetrics (FKA Exelion)
|
www.peermetrics.com/
|
Creators of the Open Source PeerBrowser, as well as the
Rabbit Protocol and the Peer System, a framework for developing
P2P applications.
|
|
Peernetics
|
www.peernetics.com/
|
Now defunct Portal with subwebs for investors and P2P entrepreneurs.
|
|
PeerProfits
|
www.whimsical.net/peerprofits/
|
Information portal about the P2P movement.
|
|
PeerToPeerCentral
|
www.peertopeercentral.com/
|
Information portal about the P2P movement. Provides original
research and analysis.
|
|
Peer-to-Peer Working Group
|
www.peer-to-peerwg.org/
|
Non-profit effort organized to promote best-known practices
based on peer-to-peer computing.
|
|
Peertal
|
www.peertal.com/
|
Information portal about the P2P movement.
|
|
PetaPeer
|
www.gnotella.com/
|
Developers of the Gnotella search engine that searches
Gnutella networks. Inked a deal with Clarity Incentive Systems
to jointly develop and market a proprietary rewards platform
that brings together highly involved participants and industry
leading suppliers.
|
|
Piper
|
www.bioinformatics.org/piper/
|
An Open Source distributed workflow system.
|
|
Platform Computing
|
www.platform.com/
|
Launched in June, 2000, LSF ActiveCluster extends Platform's
core Load Sharing Facility (LSF) which optimally manages
job processing by spreading the workload across the network,
orchestrating all resources, regardless of differences in
hardware architecture or operating system. The company has
strategic partnerships with Compaq, HP, IBM, SGI and Sun
Microsystems. Monsanto is a client.
|
|
PLATFORMedia
|
www.platformedia.com/
|
An intranet file searching platform plus distributed Excel
spreadsheet calculation.
|
|
Plebio
|
www.plebio.com/
|
Now defunct A search engine that searches a peer-to-peer search network.
|
|
Pocit Labs
|
www.pocit.com/
|
Swedish maker of BlueTalk™, a Bluetooth-based P2P network
platform that is now shipping.
|
|
Pointera
|
www.pointera.com/
|
The Pointera Sharing Engine allows users to find, download,
and share any file format as well as doing a meta-search
that automatically checks other search engines as well.
|
|
PointFire
|
www.pointfire.com/
|
Now defunct A startup in stealth mode developing P2P content distribution
technology.
|
|
Popular Power
|
www.popularpower.com/
|
Now defunct. Along
with SETI@home, Popular Power was the poster child for distributed
computing. Now it’s one of the first to cease operations.
They are still running their non-profit projects, donating
their users’ cycles to model flu virus. Plans to eventually
charge for them and compensate users apparently fell through.
|
|
Porivo Technologies, Inc.
|
www.porivo.com/
|
PeerReview is a distributed testing application; Porivo
PEER(sm) is distributed computing technology. Establishing
a computing exchange.
More . . .
|
| Powerllel |
www.powerllel.com |
The
Powerllel Software Suite enables enterprise-wide parallel
processing through three components: Adapters, Lobster and
DNet. Adapters place mathematical simulations, models, and
algorithms into a flexible parallel framework. Lobster is
a platform with built-in load balancing and fault tolerance.
DNet provides an OS and middleware agnostic virtual layer
that allows organizations to parallelize applications without
costly and cumbersome customization and systems integration.
|
|
Proksim Software
|
www.quazal.com/
|
Now known as Quazal. No longer in the P2P business space,
the company is developing P2P infrastructure for online
games.
|
|
Publius
|
www.cs.nyu.edu/~waldman/publius/
|
An anonymous Web publishing system that inserts a layer
of encryption that protects the identity of a publisher.
A project at NYU.
|
|
Punch Networks
|
www.punchnetworks.com
|
Web-based file sharing and collaboration. Has patented
distributed software updating: "Method and apparatus for
automatically disseminating information over a network"
Patent 6,240,451 granted May 29, 2001.
|
. 