The typical Hank article I read is pretty well balanced and reasons out things logically. Not this one, it seems to be completely overblown, but that's nothing

The typical Hank article I read is pretty well balanced and reasons out things logically. Not this one, it seems to be completely overblown, but that's nothing new, since the death of CDN's have been predicted for the last several years due to a new entrants in P2P technologies. If you want a balanced take on P2P and CDN's, read the article and comments on Dan Rayburn's blog: http://blog.streamingmedia.com/the_business_of_online_vi/2008/04/p2p-vendors-str.html http://blog.streamingmedia.com/the_business_of_online_vi/200... The CDN market is probably close to 1 billion $ and the major players are not going anywhere. To get an understanding of the future of CDN's read this interview with one of the co-founders of Panther Express: http://www.contentinople.com/author.asp?section_id=450&doc_id=149694 http://www.contentinople.com/author.asp?section_id=450&d..., where he claims that the Future of CDN's is http. I have no idea how Adobe's P2P technology works, each P2P company seems to have a different approach to content delivery. Disclosure: I have worked for a couple of CDN's in the past.