Interview with Cory Doctrow
, the founder of OpenCola part1(01/03/28)
by Cory Doctrow & Jnutella.org
We have interview with Cory Doctrow, the founder of
OpenCola. He is working as
Chief Evangelist of the company. OpenCola is the member of Peer-to-Peer
Working Group. So P2P community including Jnutella.org expect he
and his company as the key role of evangelizing the oppoturnity
of P2P. This time we have 10 simple questions that most people who
is in p2p business and community have.
Jnutella.org:What happened to interest you in P2P?
Cory Doctrow(Cory):We were working on an agent
technology that would let us re-index the entire Internet every
couple hours, automatically locating interesting pages as soon as
they were posted to the Internet. We originally thought that we'd
offload "fetching" and "spidering" to user-computers, and have them
check their discovered pages into a centralized database (like SETI@home).
But the more we modelled this, the less likely it seemed that we'd
be able to execute it -- the database would have to grow in power
at the square of the rate that we added spidering capacity (users).
In other words, we'd have to buy computers at the square of the
rate that we added users. That just didn't seem like a good idea.
Then, John Henson, OpenCola's CTO, came up with the
idea of distributing the whole effort. At first, the rest of us
didn't understand what he meant -- it seemed impossible! John kept
pushing us, though, and gradually we came to understand what he
meant. The launch of Gnutella clinched it -- seeing a working, fully-distributed
system convinced us that this really could be done.
Jnutella.org:Why did you start opencola?
Cory; The three founders (me, CEO Grad Conn
and CTO John Henson) had been working together building technology
for other people for about five years, and we were tired of making
things for other people -- we wanted to make something that we owned.
Jnutella.org:What kind of community or a corporation
is opencola?
Cory:OpenCola is a really cool kind of organization.
We've got this amazing telecommuter culture, with techies and business
development people across the US, Canada, and Europe. Our most critical
communications take place over our intranet, on newsgroups, IRC,
and a Zope-style message board.
Jnutella.org:What is the interesting part of managing
opencola ?
Cory:Hah! I don't really manage OpenCola! I
have no urge to run a company; principally, I'm a spokesperson for
the company. I'm extremely qualified to discuss the company, its
vision and products, and I fill in around the edges elsewhere, doing
a bit of sysadmin, a bit of product design, a bit of this n' that...
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