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[News] Free Software- and Linux-based VoIP Beats Out Microsoft

Fonality's PBXtra Beats Out Microsoft, Other VoIP Products in Infoworld Roundup

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| Fonality’s PBXtra and trixbox Pro product lines are based on its Anywhere 
| Management Hybrid-Hosted architecture. Both of these product lines deliver 
| the advanced capabilities of an enterprise-class phone system at a 40-80 
| percent savings. Fonality also offers trixbox CE, an open source phone 
| system, which has been deployed more than 200,000 times.     
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http://ipvpn.tmcnet.com/topics/smb-voip/articles/26748-fonalitys-pbxtra-beats-out-microsoft-other-voip-products.htm

More product failures from Microsoft:

Is CRM Too Hard for Microsoft?  

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| ...in a report released a week before the conference, The 451 Group suggested 
| that the right strategy for Microsoft is disengagement -- not from the 
| customer, but from CRM entirely. "[In] one area, Microsoft stubbornly clings 
| to business as usual: CRM and ERP software, which it sells under the Dynamics 
| brand," wrote Brenon Daly, a financial analyst with The 451 Group. "Despite  
| spending more than $2 billion on deals -- plus untold tens of millions on 
| [research and development] over the past half decade -- this product line 
| continues to lag rivals significantly, particularly at the high end of the 
| market." The report went on: "Unlike its also-ran online search division, 
| which has turned to a desperation bid for Yahoo to make up lost ground, 
| Microsoft shouldn't look to acquisitions to close the gap on rivals of 
| Dynamics. In fact, quite the opposite. We would argue that Microsoft would be 
| best served by simply acknowledging that it never made much of Dynamics, and 
| selling off its CRM and ERP assets."             
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http://www.destinationcrm.com/articles/default.asp?ArticleID=7841

Microsoft Messenger 7 for Mac: Screwed up again?

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| Audio calls and videoconferencing capabilities are finally available, but we 
| can’t help to perceive this new version once again a half-baked solution. 
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http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/37227/140/

"Half-baked solution" isn't just for Macs. That's simply Microsoft's low
standards (Vista "work in progress" 15 months after release).


Related:

Fonality Harnesses Open Source Telephony for SMBs 

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| “Asterisk consists of 200,000 lines of code,” says Lyman. “We wrote 1.3 
| million lines of code. It wasn’t an overnight coding job, if you know what I 
| mean. Just to put it in perspective of just how ‘thin’ Asterisk is compared 
| to the code we had to write, we were 25 engineers and four years into writing 
| application code, and we probably had twice as many people working on our 
| product as were working on Asterisk itself. People who understand software 
| know that it’s exponentially hard to make things simple in software. Asterisk 
| is written in C, and a lot of our code is written in web code, so that’s 
| actually written in PERL and HTML.         
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http://opensourcepbx.tmcnet.com/topics/open-source/articles/9713-fonality-harnesses-open-source-telephony-smbs.htm
http://tinyurl.com/35p2ul


TrixBox Pro provides free IP calling for SMBs

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| Fonality has 100 employees and has seen about 1.4 million downloads of 
| TrixBox CE in the past two years. Lymon estimated there are about 2,500  
| customers in 50 countries for various Fonality products. 
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9030464&intsrc=news_ts_head


Fonality, Trixbox, and is Microsoft Asleep at the Wheel Again?

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| So why is this big news? Trixbox is the distribution for telephony on
| Linux today. They have put together a vertical Linux distribution
| dedicated to telephony. It combines Asterisk with a web based
| interface backed by MySQL, integrated into the SugarCRM solution. As
| Redhat today is the LAMP of the IT Enterprise and Web Framework, 
| (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl/PHP), Trixbox is the LAMP stack of the
| Telephony market, Linux , Asterisk, MySQL, Perl/PHP.
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http://krow.livejournal.com/451870.html


Car dealership uses Asterisk VoIP to stay on "cutting edge"

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| Now that Stear's having a good experience with open source, he's
| considering adding more to the IT mix at O'Brien. "I'd like to put
| some file servers on the network without paying Microsoft all that
| licensing money," he says. He's already got Red Hat Linux on the
| two servers running Asterisk, and several traditional open source
| tools for network monitoring and administration, including MRTG
| and OpenNMS.
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http://www.itmanagersjournal.com/feature/22622


Mobile Phones VoIP services start-up uses Open-Source Technology

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| Recently, I came across a start-up company offering VoIP services for
| mobile phones. Apparently, they have built the service using almost
| exclusively open-source technology, such as Asterisk PBX, Debian
| GNU/Linux and MySQL.
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http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/85666/index.html


Open source VOIP connects to business

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| Nearly three years since Jon "maddog" Hall predicted that "VOIP using
| an open source solution, such as Asterisk, will generate more business
| than the entire Linux marketplace today," open source VOIP for the
| enterprise remains a wild frontier.
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http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;822679902;fp;2;fpid;2


Open-Source VOIP Made Easy

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| Review: AsteriskNow GUI lowers barriers to entry and eases the
| transition from testing to deployment.  
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2105745,00.asp


VoIP stack demo runs uClinux on ADI DSP

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| Global IP Solutions (GIPS) has ported and optimized its VoIP
| (voice-over-IP) signal processing stack to an Analog Devices Inc.
| (ADI) digital signal processor (DSP). The companies are demonstrating
| GIPS VoiceEngine Embedded on uClinux atop ADI's Blackfin BF537
| development board, at the Spring VON Conference in San Jose,
| Calif. this week.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2941865245.html


Solegy Announces XMPP Open Source Real-Time Collaboration Integrated into Its
Managed Service Delivery Platform

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| Because Solegy is also making the basic Spark plug-in freely downloadable
| as part of its Open Source SIP project, anyone can transform the Spark
| client into a fully functional SIP softphone, which can be registered
| to any SIPPBX or VoIP calling service. To date, this
| combination is the only freely available, open source software to
| combines these capabilities.
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http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/-solegy-announces-xmpp-open-source-real-time-collaboration-/2007/03/20/2433177.htm
http://tinyurl.com/3ygv5c


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

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