Sun splashes out on peer to peer service

Sun Microsystems has acquired search engine and peer to peer software firm InfraSearch for an undisclosed amount.

By Mark Graham, 7 March 2001 12:21

NEWS Sun has said it had bought 100 per cent of the firm in a stock deal, but has declined to reveal its valuation of the deal. InfraSearch, formerly Gonesilent.com, has been working on a P2P search engine called OpenSearch, which will refer users to a peer who is likely to provide an answer, rather than forwarding the user onto a centralised server. InfraSearch maintains a list of topics, on which its partners provide information, similar to listed songs posted onto Napster - the most famous example of P2P file sharing. Sun said this technology will ride on top of its Juxtapose project, addressing the searching, sharing and storing of information in P2P networks.

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