Apple Streams In Double Time

Entering the convergence maze from the other end, Apple have announced that the latest update to its QuickTime Streaming Server will "double its performance to 2,000 concurrent streams and adds localized versions in French, German and Japanese." You only get 60 with RealNetworks.

The QuickTime Streaming Server update will be released both as a supported component of Apple's Mac OS X Server software, and under Apple's open source licensing program. Apple's Open Source Streaming Server has been popular with developers over 14,000 copies have been downloaded from Apple's web site since it was released 10 weeks ago. Also, in a joint effort with the Open Source community, the Apple Open Source Streaming Server code has been updated to support Linux on Intel-based systems. Developers can now create Linux-based streaming server products without making additional modifications to the source code.

In other Apple also announced that QuickTime 4, the QuickTime client software for Macintosh and Windows computers, climbed past the eight million downloads mark, underscoring "the growing popularity of QuickTime as a streaming media format." The only thing don't mention is that in order the run the Streaming Server you'll need to get yourself a copy of Mac OS X, which isn't free ;-(

//mo' ninfo: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/

//mo' ninfo: http://www.publicsource.apple.com/projects/streaming/

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