On Feb 7, 2006, at 10:27 AM, Sean Donelan wrote:
On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Christian Kuhtz wrote:
If you're near real time, you have lots of options actually. And I
would contend that p2p can be efficient for broadcast distribution
actually. There already are several startups doing exactly that for
large scalability.
Yep. Lots of startups have lots of ideas. If you are selling
hammers,
you can use the same hammer for lots of projects. But I'm not a true
believer in the hammer religion.
Argh. What I'm saying is that this is being worked on. And I know
from the research perspective in a previous life that it can be made
work. The fact that startups are working on commercializing wasn't
supposed to suggest viability (it never does), but that products are
on the way to market. I have my confirmation of viability of the
concept from a different background altogether and I don't subscribe
to startup=viability for anything.