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The Internet Communications Engine (Ice) is a modern object-oriented middleware with support for C++, .NET, Java, Objective-C, 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.

  
Ice Touch 1.0 Released
Ice Touch has matured from its incubation phase in ZeroC's Labs and become a fully-fledged product. Ice Touch targets the iPhone and iPod touch as well as the Cocoa framework on OS X, allowing you to seamlessly integrate Apple's mobile devices into your corporate infrastructure or to create Internet-enabled games and groupware.
Ice for Visual Studio Extension Released
Visual Studio is one of the most popular development environments for Windows. The Ice Visual Studio Extension provides seamless integration of Ice application development with the Visual Studio IDE, making it a breeze to create and modify Visual Studio projects for Ice applications.
Screencast: Ice in 20 Minutes
Matthew Newhook shows just how easy it is to get started with Ice in this screencast, taking you from installation to application in less than twenty minutes. Matthew explains the basic Ice concepts as he guides you through the creation of a fully-functional Ice application using Eclipse, Java and Python.
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