Replacing PBXes with Open Source

[Jon maddog Hall]

Hi,

For the past eight years I have been predicting that it would only be a matter
of time before we started replacing the really expensive proprietary hardware
and software that goes into making a telephony system.  I have been watching
while VoIP became better and better, and Gnomemeeting allowed videoconferencing
using H.323

Yesterday in the SoftPRO bookstore I saw a book on Asterisk, and for those of
you who are not familiar with it, it is an Open Source project to replace
the PBX (think "Centrex") services for a company.

This is going to be HUGE.  It will be HUGE in emerging economies, but also
HUGE in our own economy.   I show you website http://www.asterisk.org/

This type of work will lower communications costs dramatically.

md
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