Hamachi Anyone?

Om Malik, Sunday, August 6, 2006 at 7:00 PM PT Comments (7)

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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August 10th, 2006
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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August 6th, 2006
7:32 PM PT
Steve's right hand man said:

OS X or OS Ten or OS 10, not OS-X ;-)

August 6th, 2006
8:40 PM PT
Om Malik said:

bad habit - using hyphen thing. sorry…

August 7th, 2006
12:23 AM PT
Aswath said:

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.

August 7th, 2006
2:04 AM PT
tsx said:

(link) peer-to-peer&btnG=Search News

So, will the winner be LogMeIn ?

August 7th, 2006
9:15 AM PT
Wes Felter said:

Hamachi is currently squatting the 5.0.0.0/8 IP address space; I wonder when this issue will come to a head.

August 8th, 2006
12:20 PM PT
fsftw said:

I still find Foldershare easier to use. MSFT did well to buy that company

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