P2P trends

[mbdw6708]

How will P2P affect the business world.
Dave Waters

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[randyw]

I just answered this above, but then saw your post.

I definitely think P2P in business applications is a big idea. If you have lots of distributed devices (e.g., salespeople in the field entering order data; field-service performing on-site customer service; etc.), the ability to communicate with peer devices is a big win.

Check out this screen shot for an example:

http://badblue.com/helpxls.htm

- turns each PC into a P2P-style web server.

If you take this, Groove, etc. as useful data-points, it looks like this is a trend worth keeping tabs on.

The cool thing in enterprise apps is the ability for central IT to manage and interact with the peers. You can easily envision real-time data rollup of wireless/mobile devices to keep tabs on what's occurring in the field.

Thoughts??

 

[jnicho02]

Sounds exciting. Would there be any problems with loss of data if one of the peers went down? How could you back up data that is distributed over a wide number of devices?

....these are the sort of worries that big business will have. My home ---->

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[Guest_imported]

I don't understand all this Peer2Peer, from a systems administration point it is much simpler to manage a client-server environment. You can also make a client-server environment look Peer2Peer from the end users prospective. What makes Peer2Peer so special?

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Justin

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[jnicho02]

Justin, I would say that you are already using a P2P network...called the internet. Data is spread over a vast array of servers, and there is a routing mechanism (DNS) to allow you to connect. Think of the

http://www as

one big database spread over multiple hosts.

The recent P2P stuff to my mind is extending the network so that all the machines in the network act as servers and not just some of them. At the moment, most PCs act only as clients and not as servers.

The benefits are similar to the internet. A powerful network at low cost that increases in power with the number of people who use it.

Also, think of all that processing power and disk space that goes to waste whilst PCs etc are idle... My home ---->

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[Guest_imported]

You may also want to take a look at

http://www.jblurb.com.

They have taken the best from p2p file sharing and collaboration, mixed in a little security and encryption, and made a pretty sweet enterprise collaboration package.

 

[jnicho02]

Afro Joe, is that 'they' or 'we'? I'm sure that we would be interested in hearing from someone who is actually providing P2P systems and would only regard it as advertising if the post is not informational in content.

Otherwise, if there is anyone with practical experience then please speak up. My home ---->

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[mbdw6708]

For the latest news on P2P this is a good link:

http://www.supplychaintoday.com/p2p_news_and_information.htm

 

[mbdw6708]

Check out P2P news at this URL:

http://www.supplychaintoday.com/p2p_news_and_information.htm

The more I read about P2P the more I think it may become the next hot commodity in e-business.
dave