In his previous company, Valence Research, Bain developed a distributed Web load-balancing software solution that was acquired by Microsoft and is now called Network Load Balancing within the Windows Server operating system.
"Gnutella is a fully distributed, peer-to-peer solution--buzzword-compliant, " says Kan, who sat through dozens of VC meetings with his programmer friends Yaroslav Faybishenko and Cody Oliver.
If the components of the system were so widely distributed, the frequently heard claim of ordinary Germans that they were unaware of the workings of the Final Solution cannot possibly be true.