an Open Source Probabilistic Information Retrieval library, a highly adaptable toolkit to allow developers to easily add advanced indexing and search facilities to their own applications.
a modern alternative to object middleware such as CORBA™ or COM/DCOM/COM+. Ice is easy to learn, yet provides a powerful network infrastructure for demanding technical applications.
a way of representing structural information as diagrams of abstract graphs and networks. Automatic graph drawing has many important applications in software engineering, database and web design, networking, and in visual interfaces for many other domains
the Gnutella network could and should be one of the core distribution tools on the Internet. We believe in open standards, open networks (sux, embrace and conquer)