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Re: ICQ competitor initiatives





On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Ira Abramov wrote:

> 
> 
> 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
 > 
> ------------------------------
> 
> From: Henrik Abelsson <kain@tpu.org>
> Subject: KiT - Communications package similiar to ICQ
> Date: Wed,  3 Jun 1998 11:20:45 GMT
> 
> =====BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE=====
> 
> 
> 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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