 In 2006 Vuze was released as an attempt to transform the client into a "social" client by a group of the original developers forming Azureus Inc., shortly to be renamed Vuze, Inc. A Vuze-free version of Azureus was released along with Vuze during the beta period.The releases used version numbers 3.0, while the Vuze-free versions continued with the 2.5 release numbers.In addition, some developers voiced opposition to the idea of completely transforming the client.