Commercialization
In 2003, the research group that created Elvin left DSTC to found Mantara software in order to develop commercial applications of Elvin. In November 2006, Mantara announced that it would be ceasing to support Elvin as a standalone commercial product by the end of 2007.
The specifications for the Elvin protocols have been made available at the elvin.org site, and a new implementation of Elvin has subsequently been developed, Avis, an open source (GPL) implementation.
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