[ome-users] Imaris <-> Omero

[Gregory Jefferis]

So do we assume that Bitplane/Imaris has purchased a commercial license 
for ICE?  I guess that is one way round the problem!

Best,

Greg.

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> 	Christophe TREFOIS <mailto:christophe.trefois at uni.lu>
> 20 July 2011 13:41
>
>
> Dear Gregory,
>
> I'm not sure if this can be done, but in v 7.3 of Imaris, their API is 
> now through ICE as well.
>
> In that case, a direct communication could maybe occur?
>
> Best Regards,
>
> --
>
> Christophe
>
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> *Dipl.-Ing. Christophe TREFOIS*
> PhD Student
>
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> *From:*ome-users-bounces at lists.openmicroscopy.org.uk 
> [mailto:ome-users-bounces at lists.openmicroscopy.org.uk] *On Behalf Of 
> *Gregory Jefferis
> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 20, 2011 9:57 AM
> *To:* ome-users at lists.openmicroscopy.org.uk
> *Subject:* Re: [ome-users] Imaris <-> Omero
>
> Dear OME people,
>
> Although open source software is the target of my personal development 
> efforts, my lab still uses a mix of open and commercial closed source 
> software.  In considering a transition to an image database system 
> like Omero one major consideration is whether all of our software 
> would be able to get convenient access to image (meta)data. It was 
> recently pointed out to me that that the GPL license of the ICE 
> framework used by Omero is a problem for any closed source application 
> that wanted to talk to an Omero server via ICE:
>
> http://zeroc.com/licensing.html
>
> I presume this would include Imaris.  Has anyone looked at this issue 
> in detail?  Thoughts?  Workarounds?
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Greg.
>
>
>
>
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>
> 	Gregory Jefferis <mailto:jefferis at mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk>
> 20 July 2011 08:56
>
>
> Dear OME people,
>
> Although open source software is the target of my personal development 
> efforts, my lab still uses a mix of open and commercial closed source 
> software.  In considering a transition to an image database system 
> like Omero one major consideration is whether all of our software 
> would be able to get convenient access to image (meta)data. It was 
> recently pointed out to me that that the GPL license of the ICE 
> framework used by Omero is a problem for any closed source application 
> that wanted to talk to an Omero server via ICE:
>
> http://zeroc.com/licensing.html
>
> I presume this would include Imaris.  Has anyone looked at this issue 
> in detail?  Thoughts?  Workarounds?
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Greg.
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 	Christophe TREFOIS <mailto:christophe.trefois at uni.lu>
> 19 July 2011 09:00
>
>
> Dear Ome-users,
>
> Has anybody of you managed to interface Imaris with Omero ?
>
> I would like to import pictures for automatic processing directly into 
> Imaris.
>
> For now, the only way I see is through Imaris's Matlab XT interface, 
> but it seems rather tedious.
>
> Since you'd need to go Omero -> Omero Matlab -> Imaris XT -> Imaris.
>
> Any hints, tips, suggestions are welcome.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> --
>
> Christophe
>
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>
> *Dipl.-Ing. Christophe TREFOIS*
> PhD Student
>
> /Ing. Sys. Com. Dipl. EPF/
>
>
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>
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