Rumors are buzzing that someone is about to snap-up Vancouver, Canada-based Hamachi, a peer-to-peer application we like a lot, and wrote about them over a year ago. We have not been able to bet any more details, and are treating it as a low intensity rumor for now. These days the company describes itself as “Hamachi is a zero-configuration virtual private networking application.” It comes in all three flavors - Linux, OS X and Windows.
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3:19 PM PT
[…] Hamachi, the p2p NAT traversal app I blogged last year, is rumoured to be an imminent acquisition target. The buzz is on Gigaom. Update: Indeed. Related Posts […]
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7:32 PM PT
OS X or OS Ten or OS 10, not OS-X ;-)
8:40 PM PT
bad habit - using hyphen thing. sorry…
12:23 AM PT
They say zero configuration, but the support forum talks about various configuration issues related to firewalls. Did you notice that they also claim compatibility with 95% of the firewalls - the canonical number used by others as well?
It seems that the service provided by Hamachi is equivalent to that offered by a VoIP service provider, who as a rule offer it for free. But Hamachi charges a monthly fee, however small it may be.
2:04 AM PT
(link) peer-to-peer&btnG=Search News
So, will the winner be LogMeIn ?
9:15 AM PT
Hamachi is currently squatting the 5.0.0.0/8 IP address space; I wonder when this issue will come to a head.
12:20 PM PT
I still find Foldershare easier to use. MSFT did well to buy that company
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