News: REBOL and Morpheus Join Forces
[1/17] from: carl::rebol::com at: 29-Oct-2001 16:25
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
REBOL and Morpheus join forces to create the largest
programmable content network.
California, USA - October 31, 2001 - REBOL Technologies and
StreamCast Networks (formerly MusicCity.com) today announced a
partnership to create the world's largest peer-to-peer X Internet
content network. StreamCast, makers of Morpheus and next
generation peer-to-peer content distribution networks, will base
Morpheus 2.0 on REBOL's X Internet operating system (IOS)
technology to provide interactive programmable content to more
than 30 million users by the end of the year.
This partnership catapults the Internet into a new era,
says
Carl Sassenrath, Founder and CTO of REBOL Technologies. "It
combines the ubiquity of StreamCast's advanced peer-to-peer
distribution system with the power and operating system
independence of REBOL's X Internet applications."
We are inventing a new genre for content networks that is
unequaled by even MSN or AOL,
commented Steve W. Griffin, CEO
of StreamCast, whose Morpheus product has been downloaded by
more than 27 million users. "Morpheus and its content network
will be accessible across nearly all Internet devices, and we
will establish an entirely new class of shared, interactive
Internet applications."
Content, service, and application developers can use
StreamCast's Morpheus to distribute their works, products, or
goods over the Internet to millions of consumers. It uses an
advanced peer-to-peer networking technology that does not
require centralized servers and dynamically scales as load
increases. The Morpheus application allows users to search,
find, and execute content, including audio, video, photos,
reference data, reports, documents, and applications.
REBOL's IOS is based on the X Internet computing model that
works by downloading and executing small applications that are
stored and run locally. This approach produces a richer, more
interactive end-user experience, increases the relevancy of the
content, and makes the network more efficient. IOS also
eliminates the complexity and expense that makes distributed
applications difficult to produce and deploy. Tiny applications,
called "reblets", are only about the size of a single web page.
They can be quickly created and run across dozens of operating
systems. For security, IOS is one of the first systems to offer
the new Advanced Encryption Standard (AES).
We're going to see a whole new world of network applications,
says Darrell Smith, StreamCast CTO. "Applications will be
morphing - expanding and improving - in real time over the
network. You will be able to locate and use a variety of
innovative applications and services for business, home,
education, and entertainment. The agility of this system will
enable it to quickly outrun .Net."
Company Backgrounds:
REBOL Technologies was founded in 1997 by acclaimed OS designer
Carl Sassenrath, best known as the creator of the Amiga
Operating System and CDTV. REBOL provides X Internet systems
and solutions to companies of all sizes, technologies, and
markets. The company, located in Northern California, can be
contacted through www.rebol.com.
StreamCast Networks, formerly named MusicCity.com, was founded
by Steve W. Griffin and Darrell Smith. The company's software
product, Morpheus, allows consumers to connect to a user-created
P2P network and act as both a client and server. The company,
located in Nashville Tennessee can be contacted at [info--StreamCast--ws].
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Contacts:
Cynthia Smyth Heather Waters
REBOL Technologies StreamCast Networks
Ukiah, CA 95482 Franklin, TN 36064
[cindy--rebol--com] [hwaters--StreamCast--ws]
707-467-8000 615-261-0235
[2/17] from: doublec:acc at: 30-Oct-2001 13:56
Wow, fantastic news. Well done REBOL!
Chris.
http://www.double.co.nz/dylan
[3/17] from: brk:jenkon at: 29-Oct-2001 17:24
Congratulations, RT!
Bryn
[4/17] from: brett:codeconscious at: 30-Oct-2001 12:27
I think it looks like great news. But can someone help me with a
translation?
My poor brain needs expanding!
Brett.
[5/17] from: tim:johnsons-web at: 29-Oct-2001 15:46
Go Carl! Good news for all of us IMHO.
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
<snip..>
tj
[6/17] from: ptretter:charter at: 29-Oct-2001 20:00
What is Morpheus's website?
Paul Tretter
[7/17] from: dockimbel:free at: 30-Oct-2001 3:06
Congratulation for all the Rebol team !
This partnership is a great step forward in the Rebolization. Hope that this would be
a big boost for
Rebol and help it spread all around the world. The future is now even more exciting !
Cheers,
-DocKimbel.
[8/17] from: jasonic:nomadics at: 29-Oct-2001 21:39
From: "Paul Tretter" <[ptretter--charter--net]>
To: <[rebol-list--rebol--com]>
Subject: [REBOL] Re: News: REBOL and Morpheus Join Forces
> What is Morpheus's website?
http://www.musiccity.com/
[9/17] from: matt:fitzgerald:bigpond at: 30-Oct-2001 13:32
musiccity.com
[10/17] from: jon_saltzman:pitzer at: 29-Oct-2001 19:52
Morpheus' web site is www.musiccity.com
-Jon
[11/17] from: al:bri:xtra at: 30-Oct-2001 17:03
Congratulations to Carl and the Rebol crew!
Andrew Martin
ICQ: 26227169 http://valley.150m.com/
[12/17] from: petr:krenzelok:trz:cz at: 30-Oct-2001 7:12
Congratulations to whole RT team! As you mentioned Matrix, the movie in
your OS News interview, we've got Morpheus deal. I hope next
products/deals are going to be called Neo and Trinity :-)
Anyway - great news!
Thanks,
-pekr-
[13/17] from: cyphre:seznam:cz at: 30-Oct-2001 10:04
Great move RT! Congratulations!
It looks like lot of people will soon have to learn new word: REBOL! :-)
regards,
Cyphre
[14/17] from: hallvard:ystad:helpinhand at: 30-Oct-2001 10:19
Now do we still have our socks on, or did this blow them off?
~H
Cyphre skrev (Tuesday 30.10.2001, kl. 10.04):
[15/17] from: media:quazart at: 30-Oct-2001 8:15
REBOL... out of the dark... into the open... All good.
Finally a break that another of Carl's pet project (need I name it ;-)
never got...
YES Sir!
Keep up the good fight...
-MAx
[16/17] from: nitsch-lists:netcologne at: 30-Oct-2001 16:59
RE: [REBOL] Re: News: REBOL and Morpheus Join Forces
[hallvard--ystad--helpinhand--com] wrote:
> Now do we still have our socks on, or did this blow them off?
>
blown off.
if they mix their technologie,
they have a perfect windows-app with lots of users,
multimedia/windows-experts
and get lots of attention because of this napster-like
legacy-stuff.
together with the ability to port it everywhere,
and easy improvements.
Wow.
-Volker
[17/17] from: etienne:alaurent:free at: 31-Oct-2001 2:41
Hi, Carl,
Very good news for the Rebol community :-) Congratulations :-))
I saw many mails concerning the future techo behind Morpheus (Rebol IOS,
you said in your email).
I think many users are playing Rebol on an MS Windows box. But some
others use an alternative platform like unix, linux, beos, ...
What is interresting with Rebol is this techno is device independant.
What I hope is Rebol techno will continue to be device independant ;-)
--
regards.
---
Etienne