Everybody wants it but nobody does it....

[Marc Manthey <[e-mail]>]

welcome friends of remote partizipating and to all IETF members in bejing

whats new in the remote partizipants / multiconferencing world  ?  

Google aquired marratech a few years ago  [ 1 ] , cisco aquired  webex , [ 2 ] paltalk aquired camfrog [ 3 ] 
Adobe unveils Connect 8 Web and videconferencing tool set  [ 4 ],  Xcast is there but very quiet [ 5 ]
VP8 a fantastic codec is there,  its opensource  [ 6 ]  Nokia bought Trolltech and its opensource now [ 7 ] 

#Ipv6 is on the way, will there be ipv6 multicast ? 

Who wants to pay 70.000 $ per year for webex, who wants to pay 40.000 $ per year for a so called "opensource" multiconferencing like DIMDIM ?

Who wants to pay 1295 $ per month for a paltalk room ? 

So there is  still no "cool"  functioning opensource multi - conferencing out there for the masses after 10 years . !

We´ve made a little feature list about what we think , what might be  "cool".

Feel free to edit the document without registration and tell us what you think is necessary and required to make it a step ahead   http://on.let.de/aWfo0M

I am looking forward for some comments and insights about why  only cisco/ polycom/ tandberg / radvision tells us that  
" Video/ multiconferencing  at home " will be the next BIG thing.

regards 

and warm greetings from germany

Marc Manthey



[ 1 ] http://techcrunch.com/2007/04/20/google-acquires-marratech-gets-into-webex-territory/
[ 2 ]  http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2007/corp_031507b.html
[ 3 ]  http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Paltalk-Acquires-Video-Chat-Provider-Camfrog-1338260.htm
[ 4 ] http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9194239/Adobe_unveils_Connect_8_Web_and_videconferencing_tool_set?taxonomyId=16
[ 5 ] http://www.xcast.jp/
[ 6 ]  http://www.webmproject.org/
[ 7 ] http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2008/01/nokia-buys-trolltech-will-become-a-patron-of-kde.ars


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