Well, per usual, I don’t have much time to post, as ISC is kind of kicking me in the head (I suppose it wasn’t totally necessary that I be out till 2 a.m. gambling last night…), but there is at least one bit of exciting news:

You can finally get a video management system that works on a Mac!

This has been a complaint of mine ever since I’ve entered the industry – nothing works on a Mac. Considering that significant portions of certain industries – graphic design, education – use Macs almost exclusively, this seemed to me like a bit of an oversight. Well, Exacq has finally done it. They’ve got a great interface and a really powerful video management engine, and here at the show they’re actually showing it running on a Mac. I’ve never seen it before.

I talked to Roger Shuman at their booth and he says it was a response to integrators saying they wanted the capability for the educational vertical. Imagine that.

Thank you, Sam!  We’re very pleased that you liked it.

As with all exacqVision software, the Mac client is fully interoperable with Windows and Linux exacqVision servers.  That is, you can have Linux servers and Windows servers connected to the network of IP and analog cameras, and be fully administering, viewing, searching, etc., with any of the clients, whether they be Windows, Linux or Mac.  Features and functionality are the same for all versions.

Version 3.0 of exacqVision will be released in the first half of April, 2008.  If you’re going to ISC West in Las Vegas next week, come by our booth #6049 and see the latest.  Free registration for ISC West is here.