As p2p elbows its way into the corporate environment, some advocates are suggesting that it’s the perfect replacement for business-critical apps like email. Should email vendors be worried?
Base your email transport on something like gnutella, they say, and you’ll diffuse message delivery across a sea of nodes. Blow up a node, and its peers will still see that the message reaches its target. The dream even made it onto Wired’s 101 Ways To Save The Internet.
Early efforts, like the JXTA p2p-email project, have languished. More recently, BBC News gushed over jeftel, which apparently morphed into amteus, then dropped to radio silence after some gumshoe work by Tech Dirt and Friends. One of the few business-critical efforts still standing is ePOST, by the FreePastry group at Rice University.
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