Perhaps the most pleasant surprise on our trip came at the beginning in
Chelmsford, Mass., before we so much as boarded an airplane. There we encountered the most
immediately fetching product on our travels - Mango's Cachelink. Based on the caching and
clustering and shared memory algorithms developed by Steve Frank for the late lamented Kendall
Square Research's massively parallel supercomputer, Cachelink employs the free storage in
browsers to accelerate web access in the enterprise. Any Web page access by anyone in an
enterprise cluster is made instantly available to the rest of the company. As the system
expands it becomes more efficient because it embraces more Web pages. Everyone needs this.
We are currently installing it on all the computers in our office in hopes of accelerating our
Web access by 50 to 100 percent. We will tell you how it goes.
