Ice 1.3.0 and IcePHP 1.0.2 released!

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ZeroC, Inc. is pleased to announce the availability of the Internet Communications Engine (Ice), version 1.3.0, and the Ice for PHP (IcePHP) extension, version 1.0.2.

Changes in Ice since version 1.2.0 include:

• A new set of tools, known collectively as FreezeScript, for inspecting and migrating Freeze databases.
• Windows support for the IcePack and Glacier services.
• New platform support for Windows 9x/ME, HP-UX and MacOS X.
• Numerous other improvements and bug fixes.

Only minor changes were made in IcePHP since version 1.0.1 and primarily involve compatibility with the latest releases of Ice and PHP.

For a detailed description of Ice and IcePHP, please have a look at http://www.zeroc.com/ice.html and http://www.zeroc.com/icephp.html. For a comparison of Ice and CORBA, please see http://www.zeroc.com/iceVsCorba.html.

In addition to traditional proprietary licensing models for commercial customers, Ice is also freely available as Open Source under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). You can download the complete Ice source and documentation from http://www.zeroc.com/download.html.