Tuesday, October 08, 2002

Power to the Grid. Computerworld : Power to the Grid Peer-to-peer (P2P) architectures are also converging with the grid model. Although P2P has failed to gain enterprise momentum due to the greater perceived manageability and security of tightly coupled server-oriented systems, some P2P players such as Groove Networks are focusing on collaborative computing and communication (more akin to a data grid). Others, including Sun's JXTA, are trying to create building blocks to solve some of the classic grid problems, like authentication. [Jeroen Bekkers' Groove Weblog] 7:47:51 PM

It's been five years since the co-founders of Groove started their thing. Ray Ozzie recalls the event. Worth reading. Ray also went so far as to publish the original founding document. I also recommend reading this document. [Craig Burton: logs, links, life, and lexicon] 7:37:49 PM

ITxpo: Gartner grades the Web services standards. Analyst firm positive on most specs, although weaknesses remain [InfoWorld: Top News] "Beginning with SOAP, which received a grade of Strong Positive, the highest mark Perlstein handed out, he said that its strengths include broad vendor support, broad tool support, and is relatively easy to use.On the other hand, SOAP is still a specification, and as such has lots of security holes and scalability issues." 7:36:58 PM

Government Computer News (GCN) Interview with Ray Ozzie [Paresh Suthar's Radio Weblog] 8:27:23 AM

Interesting forum posting about Bandwidth Concerns using Groove [Paresh Suthar's Radio Weblog] 8:27:02 AM