TMC Internet Telephony: Open Source Telephony… The Next Big Thing

[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]

“The reason that open source is doing so well, aside from it
being free and customizable, is that open source products can be as
reliable as their commercial counterparts. There are still benefits
to owning commercial database software but open source is good
enough for the majority of deployed applications. It is very tough
if not impossible to compete against free, more customizable and
sometimes more reliable software. Open source will wreak havoc in
every market it touches. This process won’t happen overnight but
look to Sun as the first casualty in the open source versus
commercial war with others to follow.

“One of the next frontiers for open source is telecom. It is
here, in this space, where a company called Asterisk is making a
name for itself by offering an open source Linux PBX including
voice mail, IVR, auto attendant, overhead paging, call parking,
VoIP, PRI compatibility with many CO switches, SIP, H.323, and many
codecs including GSM and G.729 (commercial license required) to
name but two…”

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