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.

Today Nortel announced its acquisition of Pingtel, an Open Source IP PBX software company

OS-VoIP is moving up in the world, or so I like to think. OS-VoIP will now be featured in AllTop’s VoIP section as a premium VoIP news resource. I say premium because it sounds better, and because I hear AllTop is selective in the news they serve which means you don’t have to worry about [...]

Well… the title of this post is a little deceiving, Microsoft isn’t really “being Open”, but they’re openly (and officially) working with people who are, like Junction Networks… open by association Microsoft is!
When a company as big as Microsoft decides to form a partnership with a VoIP provider who’s network is openly, and almost entirely [...]

Junction Networks is a better than average hosted VoIP provider and yesterday launched a new partner program which warrants a mention at OS-VoIP since many of our readers just might be interested.
Junction Networks’ OnSIP hosted VoIP product is almost entirely engineered using open source software like Asterisk. This is a testament to Asterisk and Open [...]

I’m a huge Open Source fan and as much as I like using my SugarCRM, SalesForce has some great stuff (and obviously their software extends well beyond just CRM). SalesForce is arguably the driver behind the SaaS bandwagon and I really like what they’re doing…. even though it’s all proprietary. I recently got to demo [...]