Sun Microsystems unveiled Thursday a project designed to undermine
Microsoft's power and make its own software the center of one of the
Net's most dynamic new movements.
The software, called Jxta and pronounced "juxta," is Sun's contribution
to the much-hyped "peer-to-peer" technology made famous by file-swapping
programs such as Napster.
Bill Joy, Sun's chief scientist, announced the Jxta software project
Thursday at the O'Reilly Peer to Peer conference here, exhorting outside
programmers to help standardize Jxta as the basic plumbing for building
new peer-to-peer applications.
Sun hopes to enlist one of Microsoft's worst foes, the open-source
community, in the Jxta effort. Jxta will be open-source software,
meaning that anyone can modify and redistribute the software without
restriction. The open-source community has challenged not just Microsoft
but also Sun with successes such as the Linux operating system and the
Apache Web server.
http://two.digital.cnet.com/cgi-bin2/flo?y=hBV40QnO30Bg0aW87
Any chance of a CoDIAK opportunity for OHS/DKR-HyperScope technology?
Any interest in helping me contact Bill Joy or Mike Clary, head of the
Jxta project, to inquire about the possibilities?
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