Today, Vuze comes with a brand new release of their client (v3.1), introducing several new features. As we move towards creating an all-in-one application for finding, playing and sharing great content, that goes beyond the realm of just a BitTorrent client, we wanted to change our name to reflect that, but bring with us the frog who is such a part of our heritage,” Gilles added. “Whilst we recognize the strength of the Azureus name and the frog, it is only associated with our original BitTorrent application. We want to rectify this situation by changing our name to Vuze consistently.” “This has caused a great deal of confusion amongst our users.
“We started to change our name from Azureus to Vuze over a year ago, but we did not make the change in a clear or consistent manner,” Gilles said. For a while, they kept releasing a no-Vuze version of Azureus (when Vuze/Zudeo was in Beta), but Vuze CEO, Gilles BianRosa told TorrentFreak that this only caused confusion among their users. Things changed in 2006 when Azureus launched the content distribution platform it called ‘Vuze’ (aka Zudeo), backed up by a total of $34 million venture capital. Over the years, Azureus turned into one of the most feature-rich clients, backed by a dedicated team of developers and an active community.
The first version of the Java based BitTorrent client Azureus was released in June 2003, and soon became popular among the early adopters of BitTorrent.