ZeroC, Inc. is pleased to announce the availability of the Internet
Communications Engine (Ice), version 1.4.0.

Changes since version 1.3.0 include:

* A redesigned facets API.
* New chapters in the Ice manual on facets and the IcePatch service.
* 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.