Peer-to-Peer: Building Secure, Scalable, and Manageable Networks

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Summary: GREAT BOOK!
Review: Everybody with or without P2P experience will be able to find something interesting, new and useful in this book. Book has clear definitions, real world examples, practical technology explorations and no-nonsense solutions. Strongly recommend!

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Summary: Good overview of P2P technologies - not for developers
Review: Gives a good overview of Peer-to-Peer technologies. This book is *NOT* for developers albeit it does have some technical depth. It has a fairly good general section on Groove - certain quotes from the book:
"Groove is the 800-pound gorilla of corporate P2P computing" (on page 19).
"Groove is the Cadillac of collaboration technoligies" (on page 55).
Overall, this is a book to get a good general grasp on P2P technologies and its directions.

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Summary: GREAT BOOK!
Review: I think it's a great book. Everybody with or without previous P2P knowledge will be able to find something interesting and new. Book has clear definitions, real world examples, practical technology explorations and no-nonsense solutions. Strongly recommend to own!

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Summary: If you are a developer, forget it.
Review: This book is only a sales pitch for P2P. They use many pages defining P2P and many more to explain why it is so great.

From the description I was expecting some insight into programming applications using P2P. I was very disappointed.

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Summary: Simplistically Easy
Review: This book is simplistic and to the point, with good walk throughs. Easy to understand and top notch all the way.