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Re: ICQ competitor initiatives
On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Ira Abramov wrote:
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> after ICGnu and a few commandline ICQ-compatable gadgets, looks like
> there will be a wave of such products... the advertise intentions
> before they have code... for me this spells "we're really pissed at
> Mirabilis"
what most ppl fail to realise is that the real problem is the servers
( # of clients , synch beteen servers and speed )
Mirabilis has decent performan with up 500,000 simultanoues user on a
single server - and AFAIK they have a distributed/fail-resistant netowk of
quite a few servers connected to differnt backbones
anyone hoping to suppurt as user base > 10,000,000 (as Mirabilis do )
would have to put up a substanial server network - how substantiol depend
on how many clints they can run off a single server - also the additianol
load of inter-server synchronisation has to be taken into account
-in short it's not as trivail as it seem & a 100 users test network won't
really prove very much - also ppl should really unify thier efforts - in
order to establish user "critical-mass" which will bring a almost
expomnantial explosion for a while ( like mirabilis had )
& of course the server infrastuctue bette rbe ready - or it will collapse
under the wight of it's success
just my randown scribliing - not even worth 2 cents :)
Rafi
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> From: Henrik Abelsson <kain@tpu.org>
> Subject: KiT - Communications package similiar to ICQ
> Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 11:20:45 GMT
>
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>
> This is the first public release of KiT, Keep in Touch, is
> software like ICQ by Mirabilis.
>
> It's purpose is to provide what ICQ does and more, only to every
> platform under the sun and for free. For those who dosen't know
> what ICQ is, it's a program to track your friends when they are
> online and for example send instant messages or chat with them and
> more....
>
> The we-wish-we-had feature list is:
>
> * Online list, with user to IP resolution.
> * Offline messaging.
> * Contact lists
> * Chatting
> * Filetransfer
> * Shared code editing
> * And more.....
>
> We currently have the protocol (and server implementation) needed
> for the first three worked out (that is the client/server protocol).
> The last three are still in the works. Software to show of how
> awesome our ideas are is still in the works, although the servers
> are mostly done we still need to complete the clients.
>
> So, what I'm trying to say, is that both protocol and software
> is still developers only, but we'll be there soon enough.
>
> Server platforms
> * Linux (If anyone wants to test to compile the server on
> another platform, please do)
> * Win32
>
> Client platforms
> * Linux/X
> * Linux/console
> * Win32
> * Java
>
> You can read more or download the latest release of KiT at
> http://tpu.org/kit/
>
> - --
> Henrik Abelsson <kain@tpu.org> | Web: http://www.tpu.org
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