It's been about a year and 4 months since we started prototyping the basics of Cocomo - establishing a Session with the services, and working on a new approach to real-time messaging that would accomplish 2 goals :

1) Be robust enough to handle all of the needs of a complex app like Breeze/Connect.
2) Be designed in such a way that an ENTIRE MEETING application could be written COMPLETELY on the client, using a generic set of "real-time collaboration" services on the backend.

Well, we're proud to announce that the goals have been met - the results are Cocomo (our client-server framework for real-time collaboration, which, go listen to me ramble here, if you want more details), and what we're unveiling today - codenamed BRIO.

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BRIO is the beta codename next generation of Connect/Breeze. It's also FREE, for up to 3 people in a room at once.

Getcherself a BRIO Room here!

The great thing from my perspective is that we've really taken the time to validate the framework here, and really executed on the concept - our Cocomo server framework is now deployed and public-facing, and will (soon, soon!) provide the same backend services for applications that any Flex developer can use in their own applications. You did know that there's a private beta for the Cocomo Flex components about to start, didn't you?