Fawcett Innovations
FrogNet grew out of a long-running systems-engineering project: remove distributed machinery that the application does not actually need.
John W. Fawcett has worked in systems and networked software since the 1970s. FrogNet has been developed for roughly a decade and was used in his own environment before the public work expanded across the Internet.
Fawcett Innovations LLC
Commercial engineering, consulting and development around FrogNet and distributed systems.
FrogNet
GPLv2-only software intended to remain inspectable, runnable and modifiable by the people who depend on it.
Lineage
The shared-state programming idea has clear lineage in Linda and tuple-space work. FrogNet's contribution is not claiming to have invented shared memory as a concept; it is the combination of a living network, semantic transport, RAM-like application surface and the evidence gathered by applying that model to very different systems.