Peer-to-Peer Computing: Technologies for Sharing and Collaborating on the Net

Rating:
Summary: "Popular Science" Overview Book
Review: Useless if you actually want to set up a peer-to-peer network. This book is an interesting overview and history of P2P, with lots of references to standards groups, but provides no useful hardware, architecture, Internet, operating system or application program information on setting up a real peer-to-peer network, either intranet or Internet based.

Good, but probably an overload, for the casual weekend book browser who wants general information on the origins, concepts, challenges, opportunities and potential (circa 2001/2) of P2P networking.

For general overview, 4 stars. For useful implementation information, zero stars. Average, 2 stars.