[ba-ohs-talk] Bill Joy and P2P
http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,35849,FF.html (01)
The story behind JXTA, the new Java P2P system. (02)
"Back in the summer of 2000, when Napster was still the rage, the term
"peer-to-peer computing" became cocktail party fodder at every gathering in
Silicon Valley. People started talking about the potential of so-called
distributed forms of computing, such as the direct sharing of music files
between Napster users. But there was a problem: no standards, no agreed-on
ways to create these distributed applications. So Bill Joy, chief scientist
and co-founder of Sun Microsystems, hatched a plan at his Aspen research
lab to create a software operating platform upon which such distributed
applications could be built. " (03)