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The next version of Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro (I still haven;t figured out why they had to name it Acrobat) has been announced and will be available towards the end of the month. The full press release is here.
As you may know, Connect is built on top of FMS and leverages most of its features. Presenters can also run a special version of the Flash Player which features screen sharing capabilities, amongst other things.
Wowza Media Systems have announced a new price for their popular Wowza Media Server Pro. Now priced at $995 it offers a similar feature set as the recently announced Adobe Flash Media Interactive Server which is priced at $4,500. Wowza Media Server is now at the same price level as the announced Adobe Flash Media Streaming Server and it means a price reduction by Wowza of 80%.
It's obvious that we're seeing the market for Flash video streaming heating up with Wowza trying to maintain its lead to be the cheapest commercial RTMP streaming server around (Red5 being of course free and open source).
Streamzilla, a european media hosting provider, have updated their Flash streaming support and is currently offering free RTMP streaming to both customers and non-customers powered by Wowza Media Server, for a limited period. To request a trial account simply email rtmptest@streamzilla.eu.
Apart from live and on-demand streaming, Streamzilla continue to offer 'StroboScope' (FLV semi-streaming) services (similar to like PHP-FLV / Lighttp) and will introduce a session management option for this technology soon. The company also offer progressive downloads and of course support for Windows Media, QuickTime, MPEG-4, 3GPP and Icecast streaming. You can find more info at www.streamzilla.eu.
The BBC's much criticized iPlayer will add the Flash Player to deliver the BBC's content to a cross platform audience, something the current Windows-only iPlayer is not capable off. This is big news as Flash video will become a major part of the BBC's content delivery infrastructure and it significantly deepends the partnership between the BBC and Adobe.
More in depth news over at streamingmedia.com.
 I'm rubbish at re-iterating press releases and as others have already done it for me I recommend you read this one, this one and this one.Very cool news nevertheless, as in effect BEA and Adobe are cross-pollinating each other's products with Weblogic Server and WorkShop Studio on the BEA side and Flex Builder 2 plus LifeCycle Enterprise Suite at Adobe's end. I'm not very familiar with BEA's software or server products but apparently they are big with the J2EE crowd and widely used for high-end, enterprise level applications. Have any of you readers worked with Workshop Studio before? What does it do, how will it power Flex Builder forward and is the bundle a reply by Adobe to Microsoft's Expression tools? :-)
Interoute, a leading service provider for next-generation elecommunications networks and media services throughout EMEA and the United States, has selected Wowza Media Server Pro as a sole supplier of Flash streaming software server for its Media Manager CDN platform. Wowza Media Server Pro's flexibility and cost-effectiveness was instrumental in enabling Interoute to win a major deal with Virgin Megastores.
Virgin Megastores now uses Interoute's Wowza-powered Flash streaming on its enhanced retail site to allows users to listen to audio clips, view movie and game trailers as well as enjoy Virgin's huge video archive of in-store signings and performances. The press release below, which is going out today, provides additional detail on this development. Please note that Wowza Media is an advertising partner of this site. PS: I have started a new category for this type of posting called Press Releases
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