Friday, August 31, 2012

ICE from ZeroC, a cooler and lighter CORBA

By Vasudev Ram



I had come across ICE from ZeroC some time ago.

[ UPDATE: Customers of ICE / ZeroC. They seem to be doing well since I last checked them out. The customers include (mentioning only some well-known ones): GE Healthcare, Digium (creator of Asterisk, open source PBX/telephony software, Lockheed Martin, SGI, Northrop Grumman, Hewlett-Packard, and Boeing/SAIC. ]

ICE - Internet Communications Engine, from ZeroC.com, is (excerpts):

[ a distributed computing platform with support for C++, .NET, Java, Python, Objective-C, Ruby, PHP, and ActionScript. Ice is used in mission-critical projects by companies all over the world.

Ice is easy to learn, yet provides a powerful network infrastructure and vast array of features for demanding technical applications.

Ice is free software, available with full source, and released under the terms of GNU General Public License (GPL). Commercial licenses are available for customers who wish to use Ice for closed-source software. ]

It also has support for Android, the .NET Compact Framework, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Amazon Linux.

- Vasudev Ram - Dancing Bison Enterprises

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