Press Release
September 28, 2000
O'Reilly Announces Peer-to-Peer Initiatives
SEBASTOPOL, CA--The current buzz around peer-to-peer (P2P) services
like Napster is dangerously distorted, says Tim O'Reilly, CEO of
technical information firm O'Reilly & Associates. According to
O'Reilly, "The music industry is positioning peer-to-peer as if it were
an attack on copyright, when in fact, it's a technical approach that is
fundamental to the architecture of the internet, and a key component of
many innovative new applications."
O'Reilly hosted a group of 20 leaders of the emerging P2P industry in
an examination of the technology's promise and limitations at a
day-long Peer-to-Peer Summit in San Francisco on September 19.
Participants (listed below) agreed that peer-to-peer is much more than
file sharing--it's a range of technologies that unlock the latent power
of the network and make more effective use of Internet resouces. Summit
participants are building this new network-powered paradigm through
distributed computing (i.e. SETI@Home, Popular Power), Web services
(Eazel, SOAP, and Microsoft .NET), content syndication (Meerkat),
pervasive computing via internet enabled devices (Sun, Intel, Red Hat),
and instant messaging (Jabber).
O'Reilly is following the Summit with the
O'Reilly Peer-to-Peer
Conference, February 14-16 at the Westin St. Francis in San
Francisco, and Peer-to-Peer: The Disruptive
Potential of Collaborative Networking, a book of essays by
peer-to-peer leaders on projects including Gnutella, InfraSearch,
Jabber, Freenet, Popular Power, MojoNation, Publius, FreeHaven, Red
Rover, and SETI@Home.
"Peer-to-Peer" editor Andy Oram reports on the Summit in
Peer-to-Peer Makes the Internet Interesting Again on the O'Reilly Network.
Summit participant and Byte.com columnist Jon Udell offers his
perspective in
Peering: Remaking The P2P Meme: It's Not Just About
Napster And Piracy..
Peer-to-Peer Summit Participants
Steve Burbeck
Senior Technical Staff Member
IBM
Rael Dornfest
Senior Developer
O'Reilly Network
Dale Dougherty
Publisher
O'Reilly Network
Dan Gillmor
Columnist
San Jose Mercury News
Andy Hertzfeld
Software Wizard, Co-Founder
Eazel
Gene Kan
Founder
GoneSilent.com
Bob Knighten
Peer-to-Peer Evangelist
Intel Corporation
Kevin Lenzo
Carnegie Mellon University
Jeremie Miller
Founder
Jabber
Scott Miller
Developer/Security Analyst
Freenet
Nelson Minar
CTO
Popular Power
Darren New
Senior Member Technical Staff
Invisible Worlds
Tim O'Reilly
CEO
O'Reilly & Associates
Andy Oram
Editor
O'Reilly & Associates
Ray Ozzie
CEO
Groove Networks
Clay Shirky
Partner
acceleratorgroup
David Stutz
Software Architect
Microsoft
Michael Tiemann
CTO
Red Hat
Bernard Traversat
Senior Staff, Advanced Research & Development, Aspen Lab
Sun Microsystems
Jon Udell
Journalist
byte.com
About O'Reilly
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