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.
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Web Site
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Description
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Quiq
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www.quiq.com/
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Now defunct. Collaborative customer service. Used in AskJeeves portal.
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Quick Com
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www.quickcom.com/
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Now defunct. e-Courier™ uses IP Multicasting and JMS to support
Guaranteed Quality of Service (GQoS) compliant, peer-to-peer
networking over IP networks. More
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Quicksilver
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www.qsmessage.com/
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Quicksilver Instant Messenger is an HTML-based Instant
Message application that can use SSL to be secure. Involves
no installation or downloadable code.
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Qumatrix
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www.qumatrix.com/
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A startup in stealth mode, Qumatrix apparently will build
a P2P content distribution network. Started by former employees
of Web caching company, Akamai.
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Radio Userland
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radio.userland.com/
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A "personal radio station," music organizer and
player as well as a collaborative outliner, a writing tool
that organizes stories, directories, presentations.
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RDF
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www.w3.org/Metadata/Activity.html
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The World Wide Web Consortium’s, Resource Description
Framework, is a "declarative language and provides
a standard way for using XML to represent metadata in the
form of statements about properties and relationships of
items on the Web."
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REBOL
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www.rebol.com/
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Distributed computing platform Lightweight Distributed
Computing (LDC) is used to create “reblets” on
the REBOL/View desktop.
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RedSwoosh
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www.redswoosh.com/
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A startup in stealth mode. Founded by Travis Kalanick and
the ex-Scour development team.
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Reptile
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Reptile.openprivacy.com/
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An Open Source reputation-enhanced personal, distributed
portal that utilizes Reputation Management Framework (RMF)
to filter information.
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Resilient Edge
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www.resilientedge.com/
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Now defunct. The Resilient Platform and the Edge Desktop provide a platform
for developers to create P2P applications. Uses JXTA.
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ROKU
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www.roku.com/
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Now defunct. Roku Platform
connected information together in "context” to
view, use, and share information across all devices and
networks. HP was reselling.
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RSS 0.91
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backend.userland.com/rss091
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Rich Site Summary 0.91 is a lightweight syndication format
for distributing news headlines that originated at Netscape.
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RSS 1.0
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www.egroups.com/
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RDF Site Summary is an XML-based lightweight modular multipurpose
extensible metadata description and syndication format.
RSS 1.0 is a new version of RSS 0.91 that supports extensions.
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Sandia National Laboratories
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www.sandia.gov/
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Developed a cyberagent intrusion protection application,
still in the laboratory stage, which functions as a multiagent
collective -- a distributed program.
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| Scale8 |
www.s8.com/ |
Scale
EightSM Global Storage Service provides a virtual storage
repository for storing and serving files. Based on patent-pending
Scale Eight technologies, this solution enables transparent
file sharing between applications at multiple customer sites
with inherent disaster protection.
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Science Communications
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www.sciencecommunications.com
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Now know as Mobular Technologies. Search engine for email.
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Scour
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www.scour.com/
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Assets acquired by CenterSpan. Music sharing service.
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SETI@home: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
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setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/
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Along with the now defunct Popular Power, SETI@home is
the poster child of distributed computing. It allows anyone
with a computer and an Internet connection to take part
in the search for extraterrestrial signals. It runs as a
screensaver.
More . . .
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Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
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www.w3.org/TR/SOAP/
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Originally developed by Microsoft and now a W3C effort,
Simple Object Access Protocol) is a lightweight, XML-based,
protocol for exchange of information in a decentralized,
distributed environment.
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SiteScape
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www.sitescape.com/
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Collaboration environment offering workflow, online discussions;
shared documents and files; chat; shared calendars; and
messaging. Now available with Spanish and French language
support.
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Static
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www.static.com/
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Now called BlueFalcon Networks. Static Streamer™ reduces
cutting bandwidth and server costs for streaming media or
large file downloads using a distributed network and reflector
technology that creates virtual bandwidth.
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Sun Microsystems
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www.sun.com/software/gridware/
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Sun Grid Engine finds a pool of idle resources and harnesses
it productively. Recently released as Open Source.
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Symbiant Group
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www.symbiantgroup.com/
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New York City-based IT Services firm specializing in P2P
development.
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Texar
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www.s-peer.com
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Now defunct. s-Peer™ (Open Source) includes policy-based access
controls, unique digital identities, security enhancements,
and integrated communications tools. Uses JXTA technology.White paper.
More . . .
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TeleMessage
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www.telemessage.com/
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Instant Messaging, wired or wireless, to send, receive,
and forward electronic voice, text, images or any other
kind of document globally.
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Tenebril
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www.tenebril.com/
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Parent of NetBrilliant P2P search engine.
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Terazima
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www.terazima.com/
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TeraPlatform is a distributed computing framework that
allows enterprises to rapidly build P2P applications.
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theSupplyChain.com
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www.thesupplychain.com/
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Now defunct. ScEngine under development for supply chain P2P messaging.
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Thinkstream
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www.thinkstream.com/
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Created a distributed information and commerce engine and
a Public Information Network.
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Toadnode
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www.toadnode.com/
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A P2P file-sharing program with multi-language support.
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Traceloop
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www.traceloop.com/
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A distributed traceroute community from Dashbit. Each member runs
a client that will remotely ping other members on request
to measure network response.
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Trove List
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sourceforge.net/softwaremap/trove_list.php?form_cat=286
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A list of Open Source P2P projects, primarily file sharing
oriented.
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TurboLinux
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www.turbolinux.com/products/enf/
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Now defunct. EnFuzion cross-platform distributed computing application.
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Ubero
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www.ubero.com/
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Ubero stands for "universal binding and execution
of redundant objects,” a distributed object computing
platform.
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United Devices, Inc.
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www.ud.com/
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Distributed computing. Currently helping with cancer research.
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Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI)
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uddi.org/
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Universal Description, Discovery and Integration is a registry
initiative lead by Ariba, IBM, and Microsoft to create a
platform-independent, open framework for describing services,
discovering businesses, and integrating business services
using the Internet.
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Uprizer
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www.uprizer.com/
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A startup in stealth mode founded by Freenet inventor Ian
Clarke. Developing a content distribution application. Recently
received $4M in funding from Intel and others.
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uRoam
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www.uroam.com/
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Now part of F5, remote file access targeted to business, particularly wireless.
More . . .
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Ventrada
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www.ventrada.com/
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Ventrada™ is an application that gives mobile professionals
access to all the files in all their storage locations,
no matter where they are.
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ViralSounds
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www.viralsounds.com
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A startup in stealth mode.
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Vtel
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www.vtel.com/
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TurboCast Web is Webcast streaming technology for live
events over an internal network or the Internet, and also
can store any multimedia content for convenient, on-demand
playback.
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vTrails
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www.vtrails.com/
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Uses Full Duplex Packet Cascading (FDPC), a multicasting
technique that relieves Web site congestion. More
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WebDAV
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www.webdav.org/
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Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning is a set
of extensions to the HTTP protocol that allows users to
collaboratively edit and manage files on remote web servers.
Supported by Adobe and Macromedia.
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WebHelp
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www.webhelp.com/
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P2P customer support offering wired and wireless chat.
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WebV2
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www.webv2.com/
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PeerBeans™is an application platform and network infrastructure
that extends to B2B collaboration between peers in the supply
chain. Incubated by Siemens, who is testing PeerBeans.
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Wannafree
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http://wannafree.com/eng/index.php3/
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Now defunct. An anonymous, P2P service for untraceable speech.
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WorldOS Corporation
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www.worldos.com/
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Now defunct. An on-again-off-again application server for decentralized
applications now at rev 0.9. It was Open Source, but apparently
a three-man show. WorldOS now does P2P consulting and the
product is renamed Goa.
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WorldStreet
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www.worldstreet.com/
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Now defunct. WorldStreet Net offers distributed information distribution,
workflow, and contact management for securities traders.
Customers include Merrill Lynch, JP Morgan, and Deutsche
Bank.
More . . .
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XDegrees
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www.xdegrees.com/
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Claims to be working on a P2P metadata product, but appears
to be offering enterprise distributed information management
products. Release target is Fall 2001.
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XMethods
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www.xmethods.com/
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A really slow site to load. A portal listing projects using SOAP, including some using
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XML-RPC
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www.xml-rpc.org/
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A precursor to SOAP, it uses XML and remote procedure calls
to communicate information from one server to another.
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XNS (eXtensible Name Service)
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www.xns.org/
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An open protocol and open-source platform for universal
addressing promising a permanent identifier for a data container.
Also XNS is a platform for "web agents" to negotiate
the exchange, linking, and synchronization of information
among different parties.
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XOBJEX
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www.xobjex.com/
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XOBJEX is an OS-agnostic, compact (26KB), P2P software
daemon and API that contains an HTTP "listener",
an HTTP "agent", and an XML parser to cause objects
and components to collaborate across networks or the Internet.
XOBJEX's core technology is available for download,
under an OSI -approved license.
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Yaga
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www.yaga.com/
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Secure file sharing. Recently bought online payments leader
MagnaCash and will integrate MagnaCash’s transaction,
royalty and accounting technology.
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| Zambeel |
www.zambeel.com/ |
Zambeel
storage systems deliver a large, virtualized, managed pool
of storage, up to hundreds of terabytes, through distributed
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Zaplet
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www.zaplet.com/
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Collaborative applications via email. Create a Zaplet message
and changes are propagated to all recipients. Also polling,
voting, discussion.
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Zembu
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www.zembu.com/
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Distributed architecture for database-driven applications.
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ZeroPaid
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www.zeropaid.com/
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Maintains a file sharing portal listing file sharing applications.
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Zion
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www.zion.com/
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JBuddy SDK is a java API for interfacing to AIM, MSN, ICQ
and Yahoo instant messaging services.
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Zodiac Networks
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www.zodiacnetworks.com/
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Now known as Kontiki. Started by Netscape alums and backed
by Barksdale and Andreessen.
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