Endeavors Ends Law Suit and Launches New Product

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Oct 28, 20073 mins

Endeavors Technologies, Inc. (at one time doing business as Stream Theory), announced that they have come to an agreement to end all outstanding lawsuits that Stream Theory has pursued on its patent portfolio. Under the agreement, Exent has been granted licenses to Endeavors' and Stream Theory's streaming patents and Endeavors and Stream Theory were granted licenses on Exent's streaming patents. Peter Bondar, CE

Endeavors Technologies, Inc. (at one time doing business as Stream Theory), announced that they have come to an agreement to end all outstanding lawsuits that Stream Theory has pursued on its patent portfolio. Under the agreement, Exent has been granted licenses to Endeavors’ and Stream Theory’s streaming patents and Endeavors and Stream Theory were granted licenses on Exent’s streaming patents.

Peter Bondar, CEO at Endeavors, said “with the agreements signed with Microsoft, Citrix, AppStream and now Exent, we have consolidated our position as a major supplier of application streaming technologies and intellectual property.” Commercial terms of the agreements were not disclosed.

Around the same time, however, the company also announced its latest product line – Application Jukebox – the company’s next-generation application streaming and virtualization family of products.

“We are excited by the possibilities we see for Application Jukebox,” said Bondar. “We envision a future where the Application Jukebox Player will be on every client, delivering applications in the same manner that a jukebox delivers music. We see an enormous opportunity in the SaaS market and are working with a number of organizations that are preparing to offer applications on a rental basis using this model. They are enthusiastic about the additional functionality and ease of use provided by Application Jukebox.”

There are three editions of the new Application Jukebox product:

  • Application Jukebox Lite Edition (free) – A fully functional version supporting one server that allows administrators and ISVs to evaluate the product and discover the ease of creating and managing streamable versions of existing applications.

  • Application Jukebox SaaS Edition – Includes metering and a kiosk mode to support a pay-as-you-go, application rental model, its customizable portals create an easy-to-use environment for OEMs or ISVs to build a unique application access landing site.

  • Application Jukebox Enterprise Edition – Adds Active Directory support, and includes user and group monitoring, plus extensive tracking and support to cost-effectively streamline license management.

Application Jukebox products contain three key components:

  • Application Jukebox Player sits on the client to create the virtual application environment and provides user authentication and application license enforcement.

  • Application Jukebox Server controls and delivers applications, provides usage monitoring and logging, plus group, user and application level administration.

  • Application Jukebox Studio allows ISVs and IT administrators to create a streamable, virtualized “appset” from standard, Windows-based applications that is then published to the server.

The product is expected to have an availability sometime in early 2008.