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The Internet Communications Engine (Ice) is a modern object-oriented middleware with support for C++, .NET, Java, Python, Ruby, and PHP. Ice is used in many 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 shines where technologies such as SOAP or CORBA are too slow and complex.

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.

  
Introducing Ice Touch — Ice for your iPhone
ZeroC is excited to introduce Ice Touch, our newest ZeroC Labs project that offers a full-featured Ice run time with a new Objective-C language mapping to help you build Ice applications for the iPhone and iPod touch. Download your copy and get started today.
Chat Demo 1.1 Released
The Chat Demo is a sample Ice application that allows users to communicate with each other in real time over the internet. The purpose of this demo is to show how to design and implement an industrial-strength Ice application that meets real-world requirements. It is accompanied by two in-depth articles and web clients that you can try right now. Version 1.1 adds a new client that makes use of the new capabilities in Ice for Silverlight 0.3.
Ice for Silverlight 0.3 Released
We have released a new version of Ice for Silverlight that adds support for a socket transport and limited server-side functionality. Ice for Silverlight is a product of ZeroC Labs, where we run our experiments and share the results with you—without interfering with our main product lines. If you are looking for bleeding edge technology, then ZeroC Labs is the place to look.
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