Major open source telephony news: Digium buys Switchvox
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| This morning, I can reveal that Digium, the company that is the creator and
| primary developer of open source telephony platform Asterisk has purchased
| business phone systems solutions developer Switchvox.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/ip-telephony/?p=2450
Linux-based VoIP will become more reachable now.
Why enterprise software costs so much
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| In sum, Tibco and other traditional enterprise software vendors would do well
| to reconsider their distribution and sales models. Open source offers a
| highly viable, successful model: try before you buy, not pay and then pray.
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9787101-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
Related:
Digium preps Asterisk Linux distribution
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| "We developed our own GUI [which is] similar to Trixbox [distribution],
| but the purpose of AsteriskNow is to provide a distribution built
| around Asterisk technology so people can use it without the GUI," he
| said. "The GUI is the same as the Asterisk Appliance that looks
| like a Linksys router that runs Asterisk and has analogue ports."
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;1047335524;fp;2;fpid;1
Slast (formerly Slasterisk) is a live cd project combining Slax and
Asterisk 1.4
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| Why another distro?
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| This is a good question. We think that this has a place for 2
| reasons, education of Asterisk and custom Asterisk live-cd's.
| The config files have been moved and only the necessary ones
| remain. They have been rewritten to make getting Asterisk
| working, for the newcomer, the top priority.
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http://www.slast.org/
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