pure FUD - sporobolus

blueskymining seems to be ranting based on a pet peeve;

sure it would be nice if there were Rendezvous/OpenTalk support in some NAS (network attached storage) products, but it's a big leap from that niche to "it's gone nowhere"
name an obvious technology? take printing, for example ...
most docs available still describe it as Rendezvous, so start with a search for "rendezvous" at hp.comfor a long list of products which support OpenTalk...
then review Apple's list of committers to the Rendezvous/OpenTalk and note 5 other printer vendors
btw, Apple's support of USB 2.0 doesn't mean they've "switched"; even FireWire 400 is faster than USB 2.0, and FireWire has some unique capabilities (e.g. IP networking, target disk mode); that Apple supports both is a good thing

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Wednesday, March 30 2005 @ 02:06 PM PST

Far from Dead - lullabud

Bonjour is far from dead, and actually I use it quite a bit in my job, which is testing SOHO wireless gateways and routers. I have Bonjour installed on all of my windows test systems because it's *very* useful in ad-hoc type networking where things aren't always configured right, netbios host names are cached, or where DHCP is missing. Apps like Rendevous Beacon make the protocol even more useful because you can broadcast services for applications that don't natively support Bonjour. On top of that, people at my workplace use it all the time to share music between our iTunes libraries. I use it frequently for ssh'ing to various servers, and I even use it in place of netbios names when transferring files between windows computers. In fact, I recently suggested to our engineering team that we use this technology in the future so we can prevent the need for static IP#'s on network appliances and just use their Bonjour names with whatever IP# they happen to have gotten. Gaim has implemented Bonjour chat messaging, and so have other chat clients. Saying that the technology is dead seems like blind ridicule of a source of frustration for the person doing the *censored*ing...

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Saturday, June 04 2005 @ 04:07 PM PDT

Rendezvous is Dead Anyway - espiewak

Umm linksys is owned and operated by cisco, learn up buddy.

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Saturday, October 07 2006 @ 04:37 PM PDT