Developers Rapidly Adopt Apple’s Rendezvous Networking Technology

Developers are rapidly adoptingApple’s innovative new Rendezvous networking technology for incorporationinto everything from consumer electronics to printers, enterprise databasemanagement and educational applications. Today Philips, Canon, Xerox,Sybase and World Book announced support for Rendezvous in current orfuture products, joining previous Rendezvous adopters Hewlett-Packard,Epson and Lexmark.

Rendezvous uses industry-standard networking protocols and zeroconfiguration technology to automatically discover and connect devicesover any IP network, including Ethernet and 802.11 wireless networking.Rendezvous is integrated into Apple’s Mac OS X version 10.2 operatingsystem, and dozens of companies are working to integrate it into theirproducts.

“No one wants any one company to own or control the core networkingtechnology for the home, school or office”, said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Rendezvous is becoming a prime example of how open standards can drive innovation and quick adoption in a wide variety of products”.

“Apple and Philips share a vision for the future”, said GerardKleisterlee, CEO of Royal Philips Electronics. “We both believe thatconsumers want devices throughout the home to talk to each other, so that,for example, the music stored in iTunes on your Mac can play through thePhilips stereo system in your living room, or the photos stored in iPhotocan be displayed as a stunning slideshow on your Philips Flat TV. Rendezvoushelps realise this dream. Philips is particularly pleased that Apple hasadopted an open standard and architecture for Rendezvous, and we willsupport Rendezvous in future Philips products”.

“Canon is adding our support to the growing adoption of Apple’srevolutionary Rendezvous networking technology”, said Amit Bagchi, Marketing director for Canon’s printer products. “We’re building Rendezvous into the new ImagePROGRAPH W2200, W7200 and W7250 colour graphic and large-format network-enabled print products so they will automatically configure within office networks”.

“Xerox Phaser network printers will be even simpler for our customers to use as we integrate Apple’s Rendezvous technology into future products”, said Rob Stewart, vice president of Worldwide Marketing, Xerox Office Printing Business.

“Rendezvous is an incredibly innovative technology that we are using tocombine the best of both worlds — Sybase’s high performance, scalabledatabase with Apple’s legendary ease-of-use”, said Dr. Raj Nathan, senior vice president and general manager, Sybase Enterprise Solutions Division.“As the first enterprise company to support Rendezvous technology, Sybase’s Adaptive Server Enterprise 12.5 for Mac OS X Server version 10.2 makes client discovery and server configuration automatic, lowering the total cost of ownership to our customers”.

“World Book’s new 2003 edition for Mac OS X takes full advantage of Apple’s Rendezvous technology by allowing students to automatically share their World Book research and bookmarks”, said Michael Ross, executive vicepresident and publisher, World Book Inc. “Rendezvous is an incredibletechnology that is clearly going to drive innovative new products foreducation”.

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