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By Robert | January 9, 2008

Adobe recently announced the third version of the company’s Flash Media Servers: Flash Media Streaming Server 3 and Flash Media Interactive Server 3. The two servers come with a lot of improvement but the one thing that really catches the eye stands in the built-in support for H.264 and, of course, a huge price drop in the Interactive Server that comes with intelligent caching. What is really special is that this price cut comes from $45,000 to just $4,500. This has to be one of the most incredible price cuts in some time now and it is quite interesting that it comes from Apple.

Sting as it could mark a significant change when it comes to running a streaming media servers, as this might not be a link necessarily done with Brightcove, YouTube or various other companies like Disney or CNN. Besides taking off $40,000 from the original price, we also have to say that the assembly of an Adobe based Flash media server in such a way that it can service thousands of connected clients at the same time can be done a lot better and faster than in the past. To put it simple, for the price a company had to pay for one Flash Media server, we can now purchase 10, making one an origin server ant the rest edge servers. The new media servers from Adobe run on AMD or Intel based machines that come equipped with Windows Server or Red Hat Linux. The real problem is no longer the price of the equipment thanks to Apple, but the price paid on high-bandwidth storage and networking infrastructure. The next step is taking a look if there will be any company that will be bold enough to try a streaming server similar to that of YouTube and if so, if there will be some sort of success.

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