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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Telecom industry dials into open source potential
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Open source and open standards are "a match made in heaven," Hobbs
>| added. "You first innovate in open source, and then once you're
>| got an implementation that?s demonstrated to work, then you turn
>| that into a standard."
> `----
Now, what have I been saying here? Over and over! There's nothing
better for describing a state-machine than open-source. English-based
standards are not precise enough to do it unambiguously, which is why
most apparently standards-based equipment interworks either badly, or
not at all.
At least someone else has recognised it.
>
> http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/home/News.asp?id=40866
>
> There's a mention there of the Microsoft sockpuppet (Yankee Group) spewing
> out the usual FUD on behalf of the paymaster.
>
> Recent news:
>
> University dumps Cisco VOIP for open-source Asterisk
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| SHSU is in the process of moving its 6,000 students, faculty and staff off
>| of Cisco CallManager IP PBXs and a legacy Nortel Meridian PBX over to Linux
>| servers running Asterisk...
> `----
>
> http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1646405846;fp;4;fpid;78268965
This was inevitable. Cisco have adopted a pricing model which is
exactly the same as the existing NEPs, so there's no money to be saved
by buying Cisco over, eg., Nortel. Asterisk is a much better solution
from this perspective, and it continues to mature at an amazing rate.
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| Mark Kent -- mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk |
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Someone who knowns 101 ways to make love, but can't get a date.
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