There is a curious human phenomenon that occurs when people don't understand something they think should make sense to them. Rather than risk looking like dolts in front of their friends, they start to heap praise on the object of their confusion. Get a bunch of such people together and pretty soon everyone is jumping aboard even though nobody has a clue what they're talking about. The computer industry is filled with examples of this lemming-like, foggy thinking. Previous examples include General Magic, 3DO and the original Apple Newton.
Nobody can quite explain why, though.
I mention this because Marimba is actively courting the corporate intranet market, looking for companies that need to distribute information to remote locations or customers. So-called push technology is the market segment of the week. Marimba has built a push application, called Castanet, that distributes software and content across the Internet. These facts are important because Castanet is the sort of software only a Unix geek could have designed an unattractive user interface built atop software that makes doing what you want done needlessly complex. Push applications deliver content to user desktops.