October 20th, 2009 by Aaron Rosenthal | No Comments
Well last week marked the end of Astricon 2009 where a myriad of VoIP and Open Source companies came together to showcase new products, new solutions, and make big (and sometimes small) announcements. One of my favorites and more notable announcements which occurred at Astricon was between Digium/Asterisk and IBM.
You can read some specifics here, but in short IBM has brought Asterisk into its Smart Market. IBM’s Smart Market is a marketplace for applications designed or tweaked to operate on IBM’s hardware, specifically the IBM Smart Cube. Essentially the IBM Smart Cube is ready out of the box to run any of the Smart Market applications. Think of it like the Apple App Store which anyone who’s anyone will already be familiar with. Take the iPhone for example which is a “ready to rock” computer with a whole slew (70,000+) of applications designed to work perfectly (supposedly) on the iPhone… all purchased via the App Store. The IBM Smart Market and the Smart Cube is very similar… kinda.
September 18th, 2009 by Aaron Rosenthal | 4 Comments
A continuation of the first article about writing RFP’s specifically for Open Source IP PBX systems.
March 18th, 2009 by TylerM | 4 Comments
I believe that Asterisk is at a crossroads and has been for some time. Asterisk stands on the Path of Life for applications and ponders a fork clearly visible: Free or Commercial? Champions of the Cause of Asterisk on either side of the path cheer for one of the two forks. Which choice will the application make? Do the creators, contributors, designers, and dreamers really have a say in the matter? Is everyone making noise for nothing?
January 28th, 2009 by TylerM | 4 Comments
Asterisk’s open source architecture makes it the perfect communication application to integrate with 3rd party applications. Some people call this Communication Enabled Business Process (CEBP), we like to think it’s simply common sense… trying to get your business applications talking together.
October 31st, 2008 by Aaron Rosenthal | 1 Comment
Learn how and where Open Source VoIP can and should be used within the carrier space.
August 11th, 2008 by Aaron Rosenthal | 9 Comments
Every year InfoWorld releases their Best of Open Source Awards 2008 or BOSSIE for short. It’s pretty much a who’s who in the world of Open Source software. I would consider many of these applications as “safe/I won’t lose my job” Open Source options.
Every single CIO/CTO on this planet should use this list as a [...]
