Now that Blaxxun is offline the Blaxxun communities that still exist have even less hope of surviving. We all know that Blaxxun has not updated their products in 5 years and their product is buggy with lack of support for the newer OSs. Those of us who have purchased licenses got suckered into a pending dilemma. With the license being tied to the IP address of the server, you can't change IP addresses without getting a new key from Blaxxun. Now that they are gone, there will be no new keys. ISPs bring about changes to IP addresses on a regular basis to their customer and with the upcoming migration to IPv6 most every Blaxxun site will be impacted.
My purpose of posting this message is not to preach doom and gloom because most have seen the writing on the wall for some time; so my purpose is to see what platform/server products people are looking to for fulfilling the VRML/X3D community needs. I am not sure there are any (at least that an independent, small company can buy). Does anyone know of any turn-key solutions for VRML/X3D communities? How about turn-key 3D community server software (only one I know of is ActiveWorlds)?
If you haven't planned for this inevitability, it is time to start planning...
Take care...
Bruce Preudhomme
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