Terminus [ Peer-to-Peer ]

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Das Ausscheiden von Bertelsmann, der mit Napster einen auf Mitgliederbeiträgen basierenden Tauschservice aufbauen will, überraschte die Branche. Gleichzeitig wirft es die Frage auf, wie sich mit Peer-to-Peer-Technologie (P2P) neue, lukrative Businessmodelle entwickeln lassen.
STAND03.11.00

Kontext 1
Kritische Lücke in P2P-Technologie FastTrack
http://www.tecchannel.de/ (27.1.2004)

Kontext 1
A "peer" is a computer that exists on a network at the same level as another with similar access privileges. When you have two computers on a network, sharing files from each other's hard drives, it is known as a peer-to-peer relationship. This relationship has no shared resources on a server (as opposed to a client/server relationship, in which a workstation is specifically designated as a file server for allocating resources not available to client nodes). In other words, P2P is the ability of two or more computers to communicate on a network without a file server.
http://www.netlingo.com/LOOKUP.CFM?TERM=P2P (31.12.2003)

Definition 1
Short for Peer-to-Peer. A type of computer network where every computer can both run applications processes and manage network resources. This differs from the client/server network, where functionality is divided: some computers (the servers) are designated to process and manage the network resources while the other computers (clients) run applications.
http://www.velti.net/glossary/