Re: Sun buys Infrasearch

From: Grlygrl201@aol.com
Date: Wed Mar 07 2001 - 15:51:42 PST


In a message dated 3/7/01 7:46:31 AM Eastern Standard Time, mike@techdirt.com
writes:

<< http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article/0,,3_706221,00.html >>

hmmm, wasn't Greg lost in Burlingame about the time this was released
yesterday?

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SUN MICROSYSTEMS TO ACQUIRE INFRASEARCH; ENHANCES PROJECT JUXTAPOSE EFFORTS
WITH INNOVATIVE P2P SEARCH TECHNOLOGY
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 PALO ALTO, Calif. - March 6, 2001 -- Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW)
 today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire InfraSearch, Inc.
a privately held company based in Burlingame, California. InfraSearch is a
leading innovator of peer-to-peer (P2P) searching technology. With this
acquisition, Sun intends to strengthen and accelerate efforts within Bill
Joy's Project Juxtapose (JXTA) -- an incubation research effort addressing
new styles of distributed computing, which was discussed at the O'Reilly P2P
Conference.



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