[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“The telecom market is traditionally so steeped in proprietary
systems that it makes Microsoft seem like a fraternity for free
software fanatics. David Sugar is on a quest to disrupt that status
quo. Sugar is development leader for GNU Bayonne, a
telecommunications server project licensed under the GPL. To
support the project, Sugar founded Open Source Telecom Corp. (OST),
a profitable business selling products and services based on GNU
Bayonne.“GNU Bayonne is a customizable telecommunications application
server that can be used for a variety of telecom applications such
as interactive voice response systems and telephone system
administration tools. It facilitates the creation of telecom
applications that can be directly integrated with traditional
scripting languages and tools commonly found on free software
platforms such as Linux. It also offers a wide degree of telephony
hardware support and a modular architecture through plug-ins.“Using commodity PC platforms running Linux and multi-line
telephony hardware available from numerous vendors, GNU Bayonne
creates and deploys commercial voice applications that work with
the public phone network. GNU Bayonne, says Sugar, gives
corporations telephony services based on free operating
systems…”