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Does anybody have any thoughts on the differences between Sandstorm, Camlistore, and Tent?

It seems there are a number of problems here. We need:

1. Better data stores 2. Better server environments 3. Better ways to share data with others

I wonder if Camlistore's approach might not be the cleanest, since it doesn't try to bundle (1) and (2) together.

EDIT: Not to get too sappy, but any of these would be _fantastic_ compared to our current Web 2.0 disaster, and I'm glad Sandstorm is picking up steam.



Camlistore and Tent are both complimentary to Sandstorm. Sandstorm gives you a way to run apps easily, Camlistore is a structured storage system which other apps could connect to, and Tent is a federation protocol that apps could use to talk to each other. I'd like to see this all converge at some point. :)


That's awesome news.

I'm suspicious there's too much overlap between Camlistore and Tent for them to both be useful, since they each do data storage and sharing, but that's not your problem:)




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