In March 2000 Sun announced its iForce initiative, a group of products and services designed especially for Internet start-up companies to help them get up and running quicker and more efficiently. More than 40 partners pledged their support of the iForce initiative. Sun planned to invest $300 million in its iForce partners, which included Oracle, Inktomi, and Open Market.
Sun's chief scientist and co-founder William Joy announced in early 2001 that Sun planned to develop a foundational technology for peer-to-peer (P2P) communications called Juxtapose, or Jxta. The company intended to provide a simple code layer that would enable other vendors to build applications using P2P technology that could interact with each other. In a networked enterprise computing environment, P2P technology offered the possibility of sharing information without storing it in a central repository. Instead, P2P technology employed a crawler that searched for information on the hard drives of all the networked computers in the enterprise.
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