LinuxWorld: Microsoft and Open Source Face Off Over IP Telephony | Linux Today

LinuxWorld: Microsoft and Open Source Face Off Over IP Telephony

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 23, 2007

“Things are getting tense in the business telephony world.
Microsoft is heading for a face-off with the increasingly
influential open source company Digium. Both companies are
launching competing phone systems for small businesses at the VON
07 trade show in San Jose.

“In the world of products uniting the worlds of VoIP and
traditional telephony, Digium is the more established of the two
players, with its open source Asterisk software built into a wide
range of products and used by more than two million users…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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