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Rendezvous Renamed to OpenTalk

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the legal-chest-thumping dept.

Gogo Dodo writes "Back in August, Slashdot covered Tibco suing Apple over the Rendezvous trademark. AppleInsider now reports that the lawsuit has been settled and Rendezvous' new name will be OpenTalk." Meanwhile Zeroconf sits in the corner and cries.

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  1. Re:In Other News... by syates21 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yeah that's the same.
    TIBCO has had a patented networking protocol called Rendezvous for years that is the core of their whole business. It runs a few small systems you may have heard of like, oh, NASDAQ.

    It's not too hard to see why they might be upset at another company coming out and promoting a completely different and unrelated networking protocol with the same name.

  2. To highlight the product similarities by phoebe · · Score: 5, Informative

    Tibco's Rendezvous can be used to the do same task as Apple's Rendezvous, i.e. dynamic configuration. They both use multicast and don't require server endpoint configurations like addresses, etc. However Tibco's Rendezvous can also do generic, certified, and transactional messaging and hence Apple's product description does harm by implying Tibco's software has less capabilities, i.e. inferior, to what it really is.

    To update the trademark links, Tibco was formally Teknekron: