Scott Weeks wrote: > > > There're a lot of players in that space. I used to work for a company called > Digital Island that bought Sandpiper to get their Footprint CDN. This was > then sold to C&W who then sold it to blah, blah and it finally ended up at > Savvis. There were several lawsuits with Akamai (a Hawaiian word for smart, > clever or intelligent BTW) in the US about who invented what first. Akamai > came out on top from what I heard after leaving the company. > > http://www.savvis.net/corp/Products+Services/Content+Delivery+Network/default
thanks for this information. > > You should be sure to do the market research before doing anything more than > a fun and interesting project. as I wrote before, I'm just interested in the technology. I don't want to build a CDN for productive use. We're quite happy with our clustered hosting platform. > > scott _______________________________________________ swinog mailing list [email protected] http://lists.swinog.ch/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog
