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Re: [News] Microsoft to Penetrate VoIP Market Through Vertical Integration?

__/ [ 7 ] on Wednesday 13 December 2006 20:52 \__

> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> 
>> __/ [ 7 ] on Tuesday 12 December 2006 21:58 \__
>> 
>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Microsoft starts test of new VoIP server
>>>> 
>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>> | Microsoft Corp. started testing on Monday a new computer server
>>>> | software that allows corporate customers to make Web-based phone calls
>>>> | through its Office suite of business software.
>>>> `----
>>>> 
>>>> http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061212/wr_nm/microsoft_voip_dc
>>>> 
>>>> I don't think this qualifies as monopoly abuse, but it might. It is
>>>> similar to prebundling of software (e.g. media player, IM, Web browser)
>>>> or introduction of formats, some of which are proprietary or adverse to
>>>> common standards (e.g. XPS writer/reader, WMV/WMA, Office formats, DRM).
>>> 
>>> 
>>> If asterisk gets friendlier documentation and GUIfied and easy to use,
>>> there will be no need for a micoshaft solution.
>>  
>> There are vendors whose product present a nice front-end to Asterisk, as
>> well as ready-to-go appliances. Same with MythTV.
> 
> 
> Any good free ones out there?
> Just too lazy on this occasion to learn more things on top of gazzillions
> of other new things.

I think it was work in progress. Let me look.

AsteriskNOW Version 1.4.0 Beta 1

,----[ Quote ]
| The most popular open source PBX software, Asterisk, can now be
| easily configured with a graphical interface. AsteriskNOW Beta is a
| Software Appliance; a GUI implementation with the open source
| Asterisk distribution. AsteriskNOW includes all the Linux
| components necessary to run, debug and build Asterisk, and only
| those components, so installation is easy. You no longer have to
| worry about kernel versions and package dependencies. Unlike other
| Linux distributions used to deploy Asterisk, no unnecessary components
| that might compromise security or performance are included.
`----

http://www.asterisknow.org/

The MythTV appliance which has Ubuntu (IIRC) preinstalled is not free, but
there are good HOWTO's and Live CD's too, I think, so it should not be hard
to set up MythTV, for free.

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