Yeah, from looking at it (I haven't installed it yet), the Logmein purchase and adaptation seems to make it a lot more interesting (I think I do vaguely remember it as a gaming thing back in the day when IPX was a thing)
I wonder if Salesforce, Oracle, Microsoft Azure, etc. would be likely to do some kind of virtual/software defined network thing in the future. It's an obvious choice for an IaaS provider, but being able to put your SaaS or PaaS on a customer-defined network makes a lot of sense too. Would love to talk to those guys.
It was indeed widely used in gaming circles, but gamers weren't really the target market I designed it for. They just happened to come along in droves, because I added support for network broadcasts and that made LAN games playable over the internet.
I wonder if Salesforce, Oracle, Microsoft Azure, etc. would be likely to do some kind of virtual/software defined network thing in the future. It's an obvious choice for an IaaS provider, but being able to put your SaaS or PaaS on a customer-defined network makes a lot of sense too. Would love to talk to those guys.