Open-source multimedia middleware - MotamaA seven-year-old, dual-licensed project for cross-platform multimedia middleware has achieved its first stable release. Motama’s NMM (network-integrated multimedia middleware) 1.0 is said to let developers build whole-house multimedia applications with advanced features such as “follow-me” handoff from one device to another.

The NMM project was founded in 2000 by Professor Philipp Slusallek, of Stanford University and later of the Computer Graphics Lab at Saarland University, Germany. A version of NMM for Linux was released under an open source license in 2002. Then, in 2005, Saarland University researchers Marco Lohse and Michael Repplinger founded Motama, together with Slusallek, in order to commercialize NMM. The new 1.0 release of NMM, which now also supports Windows XP and Vista, is the first to be officially maintained by Motama….

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