3Di, a Tokyo-based member of the NGI group who maintain a fairly solid Second Life presence, have announced the launch of an enterprise virtual worlds product based on the BSD-licensed Opensim, Second Life simulator workalike.
3Di Opensim (the base 3Di technology) is a reworked and extended version of Opensim, and as an enterprise solution is packaged with additional tools and support under the name 3Di Opensim Standard. 3Di maintain a separate project developing further extensions and enhancements for 3Di Opensim.
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While not all the details are clear and available right now, 3Di Opensim Standard will allow businesses, individuals, and organizations to create their own virtual environments (aka virtual worlds), while detailed logging facilities and information tools provide for detailed analysis of user behavior.
3Di Opensim Standard appears to be provided to run on an organization's own hardware, in contrast to products like the upcoming Immersive Workspaces from Rivers Run Red, where (according to the best of our available information) servers run at one of Linden Lab's data centers (though possibly on a private subnet. That's the 'behind the firewall' solution, as near as we've been able to determine).
At present it is not known if 3Di Opensim Standard is available for sales/support outside of Japan.
3Di Opensim Standard version 1.0 runs on Windows Server 2003 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (with Mono support). Requirements include a dual-core 2Ghz processor or better, 4GB of RAM and 10GB of hard-drive space. Standard Second Life (or compatible) viewer software is required to connect to and use the virtual environment.
3Di Opensim Standard appears to go for a little under $5,000USD (525,000円).
