Comments on: Asterisk still #1 in OS VoIP for “InfoWorld’s Bossie Awards 2008″

By: public pee desperate

public pee desperate — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 03:38:22 +0000

hmm. love it )

By: Cheap Voip Service

Cheap Voip Service — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:57:53 +0000

Great article. The husband and I dumped landlines for voip about 2 years ago and haven’t looked back since. Our friends are cell phone only but we only have prepaid so this works out. Thanks!

By: User links about "middleware" on iLinkShare

User links about "middleware" on iLinkShare — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:18:14 +0000

[...] | user-saved public links | iLinkShare 1 votesAsterisk still #1 in OS VoIP for “InfoWorld’s Bossie Awards 2008″>> saved by xHuax 2 days ago4 votesSAP and Oracle give middleware users an “Alito”>> saved by [...]

By: James

James — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 06:38:27 +0000

Hi, I found your blog on this new directory of WordPress Blogs at blackhatbootcamp.com/listofwordpressblogs. I dont know how your blog came up, must have been a typo, i duno. Anyways, I just clicked it and here I am. Your blog looks good. Have a nice day. James.

By: Question about criteria to use in selecting a Clinical ... ·

Question about criteria to use in selecting a Clinical ... · — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:16:02 +0000

[...] News » News Asterisk still #1 in OS VoIP for “InfoWorld’s Bossie Awards 2008″2008-08-18 19:15:25Vendors should build a boxing ring in their office just to let potential vendors [...]

By: Anthony Minessale

Anthony Minessale — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:36:00 +0000

That’s probably true but don’t forget I probably helped Asterisk win some of those previous awards with all the work I did on the project. http://www.cluecon.com/anthm.html I am not saying Asterisk does not deserve consideration for the award and I am certainly not saying FreeSWITCH should win, that’s not up to me, but I do think judging an open source project on how commercialized it is rather than it’s merits is somewhat counter-intuitive to the point of community driven software and all the software I listed deserve a hand for their efforts.

In fact if anyone should get an award, my vote goes to the developers of OpenH323 and OPAL for creating the entire concept of open source VoIP 10 years ago http://www.voxgratia.org/

We are all getting lazy here in this arena by simply borrowing tag lines from Google searches rather than doing any actual investigation which automatically gives software projects like asterisk the ability to spend it’s entire budget on marketing instead of software development.

Yes, we can do bigger and better things with a company backing us but i will not allow it to happen unless the community and open source spirit is preserved. (That’s the spirit of business and commercialism tempered with the understanding of the power open source software has to benefit the entire sector.)

I just hope that being mature does not imply I need to be exactly like Asterisk because we already have an Asterisk. My goal was to do something different……..

By: Aaron Rosenthal

Aaron Rosenthal — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:54:38 +0000

Well I do agree with Anthony that software like OpenSER and FreeSWITCH deserve some love, but there’s no denying Asterisk is the most established and mature Open Source VoIP software of the bunch. Asterisk might not be perfect but out of all the OS VoIP solutions, Asterisk has the largest user base, the most contributing developers, and Asterisk also has a multi-million dollar company, Digium, backing the project.

Support is one of the biggest concerns for a company when it comes to adopting Open Source software (and yes this concern is sometimes unfounded), so it makes sense that they’ll choose the OS projects that come from organizations who can offer ample support. It is my hope that OS VoIP software like FreeSWITCH and OpenSER continue to get recognition, maybe some funding, so as to grow into more profitable and mature projects. I understand your frustration Anthony with Asterisk for stealing the spotlight from FreeSWITCH, but Asterisk is just the older popular kid. You should be thrilled that in its 1.0.1 stage, FreeSWITCH is already up there with the likes of Asterisk and OpenSER.

Also, the people who selected the BOISSE winners were editors, analysts, and reviewers…. no engineers. Maybe next year InfoWorld can get some engineering judges.

By: Anthony Minessale

Anthony Minessale — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:20:50 +0000

I somehow doubt any consideration was made for all the many other open source telephony apps out there. I am more than certain that the people handing out these awards have not even actually evaluated Asterisk or any of the rest for that mater and therefore I question their integrity. Give the other apps a chance.

FreeSWITCH http://www.freeswitch.org
sipX http://sipx-wiki.calivia.com/index.php/SipX#sipX_-_The_SIP_PBX_for_Linux
CallWeaver http://www.callweaver.org
YATE http://yate.null.ro/pmwiki/
Bayonne http://www.gnu.org/software/bayonne/
OpenSER http://www.openser.org/

By: Denis

Denis — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:50:24 +0000

This list is impressive. Enterprise open source software are flourishing in many fields. Many enterprise proprietary solutions have their open source alternatives ( see a quite huge list there: ://www.opensource-it.com/content/open-source-alternatives-proprietary-software .It is really exciting to see pro solutions like Asterisk or Drupal supported by a company AND a community. But I would recommend be very careful with open source solutions backed only by a software vendor, and not a community. If this is a tactical choice no problem, but if you want to massively deploy on the long run, I would recommend to stick to solution that have at least community driven.