The power of Apple Rendesvous
February 10, 2003 - 11:44am — gfair
This article at Business Week talks about Rendesvous, and some of the absolutely astounding things you can do with it, like auto-configure printers on a network without having to sort through IP addresses, or how some 3D software vendor built it into their products, and now the software can wirelessly locate available machines and distribute the workload to them. That is not only a case for Rendesvous, but 802.11g in the workplace of some graphics and 3D workgroups, too.
Definitely a must-read for people interested in elegant, simple technology that could make the Windows platform a lot more painless to enterprise/office workers, or make the Mac a far more appealing platform for that environment.
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Don't know what it is carrying on about. MS already has Zeroconf capabilities in WinXP (as well as UPnP) and will add more, it's easy to use Zeroconf in Windows and many people do. Why should MS make Apple's extra bits? That's someone else's (aapl) job.
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IP Journal & Slashdot & IETF.
Rendezvous is cool
reminds me a lot of the potential Aglets had back in the day. Of couse Rendezvous is built into hardware/OS so it's easier to access.
I am really grooving on the idea of distributed computing via Rendezvous. "Junior! The toaster is slow to respond! Are you rendering again??"