ANNOUNCE: Ice 1.3.0

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Marc Laukien - 06 Mar 2004 01:28 GMT

ZeroC, Inc. is pleased to announce the availability of the Internet
Communications Engine (Ice), version 1.3.0.

Changes since version 1.2.0 include:

* A new set of tools, known collectively as FreezeScript, for inspecting
and migrating Freeze databases.

* Windows support for the IcePack and Glacier services.

* New platform support for Windows 9x/ME, HP-UX and MacOS X.

* Numerous other improvements and bug fixes.

For a detailed description of Ice, please have a look at
http://www.zeroc.com/ice.html. For a comparison of Ice and CORBA, please
see http://www.zeroc.com/iceVsCorba.html.

In addition to traditional proprietary licensing models for commercial
customers, Ice is also freely available as Open Source under the terms
of the GNU General Public License (GPL). You can download the complete
Ice source and documentation from http://www.zeroc.com/download.html.

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Mariusz - 08 Mar 2004 13:15 GMT

Is Ice in any way connected to Corba? Is it based upon CORBA specification?
Cause it seems to me that Ice is completely different product with it's own
specification and tools. Is that true?

> ZeroC, Inc. is pleased to announce the availability of the Internet
> Communications Engine (Ice), version 1.3.0.

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Marc Laukien - 08 Mar 2004 14:08 GMT

> Is Ice in any way connected to Corba? Is it based upon CORBA specification?
> Cause it seems to me that Ice is completely different product with it's own
> specification and tools. Is that true?

That's correct. It is an alternative to CORBA. For a comparison between
Ice and CORBA, have a look at http://www.zeroc.com/iceVsCorba.html

-- Marc

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