“Apple Computer in the coming months will change the name of its Rendezvous networking technology to ‘Bonjour,’ according to company documents shown to AppleInsider. Last year, Tibco Software of Palo Alto, Calif., entered into a trademark dispute with Apple over its use of the Rendezvous name, alleging that the Apple technology, used in products such as Mac OS X and the iTunes Music Store, infringed on its exclusive rights to the Rendezvous name,” Kasper Jade reports for AppleInsider.
“In July 2004, AppleInsider reported that the two companies agreed to end the dispute through a mutual out of court settlement. Sources close to the negotiations said that, as part of the deal, Apple agreed to phase out its use of the ‘Rendezvous’ name in time,” Jade reports. “Apple’s Rendezvous technology, also known in the industry as Zero Configuration networking, enables automatic discovery of computers, devices, and services on IP networks. It uses industry standard IP protocols to allow devices to automatically find each other without the need to enter IP addresses or configure DNS servers.”
Full article, with information about “Bonjour” in Apple’s upcoming Mac OS X “Tiger” release and what happened to “OpenTalk,” here.
MacDailyNews Take: If Apple couldn’t use “Rendezvous,” we liked “OpenTalk” better than we like “Bonjour.”
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