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The latest version of Macromedia 's online video conferencing application, Breeze 5 , now touts capabilities including Voice over IP (VoIP), on-demand video and realtime multipoint video conferencing. Designed to work hand in hand with Macromedia's Flash technology, Breeze 5 enables companies to provide Web-based teleconferences to remote users. It's available both as a pay-to-play service and as a package that companies can install on their own hardware. Breeze is suitable for use as an online training management system, for video teleconferencing, online demonstrations and other purposes.
Since launching Breeze, Macromedia has set major Web teleconferencing players like WebEx, Microsoft and IBM squarely in its sights reports Mac World. "What we've done here is give people a far more powerful system that can allow them to communicate and share information in a way that's easier, more function-rich and less intrusive than other conferencing tools on the market," Tom Hale, senior vice president of Macromedia's communications division said. "We know that with these kind of technologies in particular, ease-of-use has been a significant differentiator, and we think that with the ubiquity of Flash, this is a pretty attractive package since the core technology is already on so many people's desktops." Breeze 5 is available as a hosted solution beginning today. As a licensed solution, Breeze 5 will be available on May 31, 2005. Service plans begin at US$0.32 per minute, per user.