Maybe Progressive Networks is not going down the tubes. :)
Gregory
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From: yusufg@iss.nus.sg (Yusuf Goolamabbas)
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Subject: Real Audio opens up
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FYI, Gregory for Classrom 2000
Yusuf
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RealAudio plays to competition
By Nick Wingfield
October 9, 1996, 6:30 p.m. PT
Progressive Networks has unveiled a framework that allows its
RealAudio software to work with other streaming media technologies,
including forthcoming products from Netscape Communications.
As previously reported by CNET, the framework, called RealMedia
Architecture, will allow players from other streaming media developers
to receive audio broadcasts distributed over the Net by the RealAudio
Server, the company said.
One of the key supporters of the RealMedia framework will be Netscape.
The company is preparing to unveil a client (code-named Trout) and
server (code-named Salmon) at its developer conference in New York
City next week, sources said.
Streaming media software allows users to listen to audio files or view
video clips as they are downloaded from the Internet, rather having to
wait for the files to download before enjoying them.
Although Progressive Networks is the clear market leader in the
streaming audio field, it is facing growing competition from companies
such as Microsoft, Macromedia, and Xing Technologies. The trouble for
consumers is that the players that they download to their hard disks
can only read content delivered by servers from the same company: no
mix and match.
Progressive's streaming media framework could alleviate that problem
and bolster the company's position in the market by broadening the
range of client software that can tune in to audio broadcasts created
with its server.
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