I read with interest an article in today's UK issue of Network Week about web-caching. The article included comments from Ed Gordon, Managing Director of Inktomi (Europe). In particular, when asked whether European ISPs were ready for more sophisticated caching products, he said:
"There are some early adopters in Europe, but people have been using freeware - products like Squid - which doesn't have transparency, or is not dynamic, scalable or offer the performance"
As a Squid user since the beginning and a Harvest user before that, this kind of disinformation really p****s me off.
Perhaps somebody at NLANR would like to make a response to Network Week, so newcomers to web caching don't get sucked in by the marketing hype of commercial cache vendors.
If anybody who doesn't receive Network Week would like a scanned copy of the article e-mailing to you, just drop me a line.
Adrian Sunderland
Technical Director
Griffin Internet
Received on Wed Apr 29 1998 - 12:17:58 MDT
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