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Reader Response: Open source IP-PBX’s: Ready for the enterprise?
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| At this point, we’ve basically settled on an Avaya IP Office switch.
| However, although the Avaya quote came in at an excellent price-well within
| budget and much less than what we’re paying on the Nortel unit-I’m beginning
| to have some concerns.
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http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/tech-manager/?p=502
So, people foolishly avoid FOSS sometimes, simply because of the
Microsoft&Ilk-imposed FUD that development methods (open source) have
something to do with 'readiness' -- whatever that is. Now the company has
regrets about proprietary software and it's looking for advice.
Recent:
It's time to retire "ready for the desktop"
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| Quite a few reviews of new Linux releases these days try to determine if a
| distribution is "ready for the desktop." I myself have probably been guilty
| of using that phrase, but I think it's time we officially retire this
| criterion.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/134808
Linux is ready, but consumers are not
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| Haff said a window of opportunity for Linux ironically may lie in the demise
| of the desktop OS. "If you believe in the emergence of cloud computing, then
| the whole concept of running applications on the desktop starts to go away.
| This may well mean that Linux gets more interesting for client devices
| because now native applications do not matter so much," he said.
|
| Colin Sng, a systems engineer in a Singapore-based firm, who uses Windows,
| Mac and Linux OSes for work and at home, said the technology is ready, but
| obstacles lie mostly with the consumer.
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http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,62040974,00.htm
Related:
Windows rapidly approaching desktop usability
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| Don't Lose This Product Key!
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| Video blanking hassles
|
| Windows XP networking: Not for amateurs
|
| Shocked by additional software costs
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| Where Windows XP shines
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| Hope for the future
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http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/05/18/2033216
Linux ready for the desktop
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| McLaren said the cost of security alone in the standard desktop, is at
| least "50 percent to double" that of Linux.
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| He believes the primary inhibitors to large-scale Linux desktop adoption
| are Windows applications, especially Excel macros, and a perception of
| a large training cost associated with the move.
|
| "There will always be a migration cost for any large project, but this
| will be dramatically lowered over time," he said. "You need take a
| long-term view and realize security and admin costs will be lowered. We're
| not saying everything should be moved over at once."
|
| McLaren cited car rental company Europcar as having "success" by moving
| call centre people and branch office systems to Red Hat's desktop.
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http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1555287553;fp;4194304;fpid;1
Top 10 Reasons Why I love Asterisk
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| In November 2001 I wrote an article for Communications Solutions Magazine
| (precuror to the #1 VoIP magazine, Internet Telephony Magazine) titled "In
| Search Of A Linux-Based PBX" . In that article I espoused the benefits of
| Linux and open source and pondered why there wasn't an open source
| Linux-based PBX. It was then that I discovered and wrote about Asterisk which
| virtually no one knew about and which was still up-and-coming.
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http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/asterisk/top-10-reasons-why-i-love-asterisk.asp
Is Enterprise-Level, Open Standard, Open Source VOIP A Myth?-
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| Real enterprise telephony, secure and feature-rich, can be achieved today
| without the use of vendor proprietary extensions. Over time, the feature set
| will grow, and packaged open solutions will become available. This will in
| turn motivate more deployments.
|
| For many enterprise IT shops, vendor solutions or carrier IP Centrex may
| offer the right mix of features, integration, and technical support at the
| right price. But a real alternative does exist in the open source, open
| standard world. For those who are comfortable supporting open source and
| building the integration with already-deployed middleware and applications,
| the rewards can be great.
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http://www.bcr.com/technology_trends/open_source/is_enterprise-level_open_standard_200708171424.htm
Atengo Announces Release of FreePBX 2.3
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| FreePBX is the most popular open source web-application for business
| telephony, with over 1.5 million downloads.
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http://www.pr.com/press-release/50267
Open Source VoIP on Campus, Part 1
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| Today, open source approaches to large production services are probably most
| appropriate for organizations that employ qualified IT staff who are
| comfortable building and configuring open source packages, and integrating
| them with their existing environment.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/59076.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
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
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