Ahead Software people are busy staying ahead. Just recently they released a network enabled version of their Nero product family. Now they are targeting corporate customers and programmers.

Enterprise
Ahead seems to be increasing the angle of their market sector. In the OEM sector they are possibly the biggest software vendor at the moment, perhaps along with Roxio (just speculating, no figures). In the retail sales it must be pretty much number one. Now the new NET version clearly targets offices and small businesses and the Enterprise Edition to a totally new market sector and platform.

Nero Enterprise Edition is a powerful CD/DVD recording application offering native 64-bit support as well as 32-bit support in emulation mode. The Windows and Linux versions support all current CD and DVD recording devices, offering up to 4.7GB of storage capacity on a single DVD disc. In addition, using the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI), users can now share data between pre-boot, as well as exchange data between Linux and Windows platforms.

Nero Enterprise Edition Key Product Features:

·Create FAT boot images on-the-fly
·Make EFI bootable CD/DVDs
·Generate CD/DVDs to exchange data between Windows, Linux and EFI (pre-boot)
·Full Nero CD/DVD data recording capabilities
·Windows version and Linux version available
·Supports full ranges of optical recording devices:
CD-R, CD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-RAM
·64-bit native and 32-bit emulation mode support

Ahead Software

SDK (Software Development Kit)
Ahead Software has launched the Software Developement Kit for Nero Burning ROM and also documentation for the Nero plug-in structure.

Documentation of the plugin structure should allow 3rd party developers to add audio format support to Nero. This means that there might finally be OGG Vorbis or Musepack support available -- at least in theory. The funny thing about this is that OGG Vorbis is direct competitor of the Nero AAC Encoder. It was speculated that because of the competitive situation there would be no plug-in interface available ever, but these theories have now been proven wrong.

Features:

Record CDs and DVDs directly from your own application with Nero's Embedded API!

If you're a programmer or a software developer, you can now use Nero 5.5's Embedded API (Application Programming Interface) to add our powerful CD/DVD-writing functions to your own applications. For example, you can record graphics files right from your graphics application.

Add new audio formats to Nero, Nero Express and NeroMIX

With our Nero Audio Plug-in Manager you will be able to add new audio formats to Nero, Nero Express and NeroMIX.

To use Nero's API and to generate Audio Plug-ins you need our Nero SDK (Software Development Kit), which you can download here.
Nero SDK