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ssj4_android · 10-04-02, 05:42 PM

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After the decision to shutdown P2P gnutella client Xolox last week I shot off an email to Team Xolox. Developer Arno Steenbekkers answers some of the questions GN put forth to him...

GN: As we can see by your message within the client the reasons you are discontinuing Xolox can you expand a little on your decision?

Team Xolox: XoloX was build as a platform for new technologies that could provide a valid revenue model. We build this easy interface, high performance file sharing application so we could do testing with viral-distribution and grid-computing. Viral distribution tests have been done with the auto-update feature in XoloX. Viral Distribution is interesting for parties who distribute a lot of files from a couple of selected servers. (updates, virus scanners). Eventually this concept could be made transparent for Huge news sites. The second concept is grid-computing. We wanted to exploit computing power of users in return for their XoloX usage. This way a valid model could rise.

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ssj4_android Redefining Reality Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 406	One of the comments: Dancing Taliban">Dancing Taliban \| April 9, 2002 @ 1:49 am \| View Profile; rv.t.online.de \| Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020313 After the decision to shutdown P2P gnutella client Xolox last week I shot off an email to Team Xolox. Developer Arno Steenbekkers answers some of the questions GN put forth to him... GN: As we can see by your message within the client the reasons you are discontinuing Xolox can you expand a little on your decision? Team Xolox: XoloX was build as a platform for new technologies that could provide a valid revenue model. We build this easy interface, high performance file sharing application so we could do testing with viral-distribution and grid-computing. Viral distribution tests have been done with the auto-update feature in XoloX. Viral Distribution is interesting for parties who distribute a lot of files from a couple of selected servers. (updates, virus scanners). Eventually this concept could be made transparent for Huge news sites. The second concept is grid-computing. We wanted to exploit computing power of users in return for their XoloX usage. This way a valid model could rise.