Voiceroute Druid Open Source Edition Launches offering New Open Source Asterisk
GUI Front End
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| Druid UCS gives Asterisk fans a new and powerful open source Asterisk-based
| Unified Communications solution. Besides now being open source, one of
| Druid's highlighted features is a user-friendly admin graphical user
| interface...
|
| [...]
|
| Additionally, this platform supports the Linux 'yum' command for performing
| updates. Ming explained, "We were the first to actually do a repository-based
| upgrading in Asterisk"
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http://news.tmcnet.com/news/-voiceroute-druid-open-source-edition-launches-offering-new-/2008/03/17/3331937.htm
Open Source VoIP: What Your Smaller Business Needs
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| The open source movement has taken hold in various market segments, with the
| Linux operating system's success its most noteworthy example. A small, but
| growing, number of vendors view it as a good fit with voice over IP (VoIP)
| switches.
|
| [...]
|
| A handful of open source movements, including Asterisk, OpenPBX, SipX, and
| PBX4Linux, have forged into the VoIP marketplace. The one that has gained the
| most attention is the Asterisk platform, which has been around since Digium,
| its parent company, developed the code in 1999.
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http://bmighty.com/network/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206904008
Ring Carrier, TelcoBridges Deliver Scalable Open Source IP-PBX Solution
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| Ring Carrier has selected TelcoBridges' TMG3200 Media Gateway to deliver
| scalable open source telephony solutions to its customers.
|
| Ring Carrier provides hosted IP-PBX solutions, an advanced softswitch, and
| the Ring Provider GUI, which enables the creation of an Asterisk PBX in less
| than 2 minutes.
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http://www.tmcnet.com/channels/hosted-pbx/articles/23042-ring-carrier-telcobridges-deliver-scalable-open-source-ip.htm
Recent:
SMEs to be offered cut-price Linux-based unified comms platform
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| A Linux-based unified communications platform will be launched at next
| month's CeBIT show in Germany. The software-based beta solution will be
| available for firms to download from next month.
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http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/02/22/229533/smes-to-be-offered-cut-price-linux-based-unified-comms.htm
Related:
Linux dominating VoIP devices?
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| Trolltech says its development framework and software stack for mobile
| devices was selected by Skype as the preferred platform for Skype-certified
| VoIP (voice-over-IP) phones. Additionally, the Qtopia framework/stack has
| been used in about 40 VoIP devices, making it the "dominant Linux
| development platform for VoIP/WiFi devices," according to Trolltech.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9974606142.html
Feeling the heat at Microsoft
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| A couple of years ago you reiterated that IBM was Microsoft's biggest
| competitor and you said not just on the business side, but overall. If I ask
| you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?
|
| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have
| to go with that.
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http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
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