fate acquired successor open text corporation founded 1999 defunct 2003 headquarters toronto canada key people grad conn cory doctorow john henson products software website opencola.com archive opencola was a toronto based software company founded in 1999 1 by grad conn cory doctorow and john henson 2 to create collaboration object lookup architecture software and sold in 2003 . the software and specifications produced were all released as open source . the earliest archived page of the company website described opencola as an application a protocol suite of tools and the company itself . 3 the opencola desktop client server or clerver in opencola s parlance application enabled users to collaboratively search acquire manage and share information from multiple data sources including the internet peers on the opencola network and existing proprietary databases from a single interface . opencola extended search engine capabilities with the ability to perform contextual searching a process that searches the entire contextual subject matter of a document for relevance and tries to replenish previous searches with more relevant results . searches would propagate throughout the network as needed to locate the specified content . the company funded further development of and released justin chapweske s swarmcast 4 then released it as gpl software may 18 2001 . the software used peer to peer swarming techniques similar to bittorrent to accelerate distribution of large high volume frequently accessed content as a way to reduce load on source servers with emphasis on content streaming . 5 the company s folders project used swarmcast technology to accelerate content distribution within organizations . 6 in summer 2003 the company was sold to open text corporation of waterloo ontario . 7 references edit company profile . opencola.com . 2001 . archived from the original on 2001 02 23 . retrieved 2008 12 28 . management . opencola.com . 2001 . archived from the original on 2001 02 23 . retrieved 2008 12 28 . opencola.com . archived from the original on 2000 08 15 . retrieved 2010 03 18 . koman richard may 24 2001 . the swarmcast solution . openp2p.com . o reilly media . retrieved 2008 12 28 . external link in work help ingram mathew december 1 2006 . torontos opencola lives on in swarmcast . internet financial news . ientry network . retrieved 2010 03 18 . external link in publisher help oram andy may 24 2001 . opencola swarming folders . openp2p.com . o reilly media . retrieved 2010 03 18 . external link in work help cory doctorow ; usc center on public diplomacy . uscpublicdiplomacy.com . retrieved 2010 11 16 . v t e distributed search engines distributed web search blippex faroo sciencenet seeks yacy alvis infrasearch opencola wowd distributed web crawlers grub boitho distributed crawler majestic 12 dsearch italics defunct this article about a canadian corporation or company is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title opencola company & oldid 739021277 categories software companies of canadacompanies based in torontosoftware companies established in 1999companies disestablished in 2003internet search enginescanadian company stubshidden categories cs1 errors external linkspages using infobox company with unsupported parametersall stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages edit links this page was last modified on 12 september 2016 at 09 46 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view