[KLUG Advocacy] Linux enters the VOIP fray...

[Adam Tauno Williams]

Theres always been the Asterisk project, but now PingTel has gone Open
Source...
http://www.pingtel.com/a_opensource.jsp
... and the new SIPFoundry...
http://www.linuxelectrons.com/article.php/20040329101000117
...all very interesting.

Here is one guy hoping they beat the living *($*@&^@_ out of Nortel.

They are actually going to release code for existing products - "The
source code for Pingtel's SIPxchange(TM) IP PBX and Instant Xpressa(TM)
soft phones will be the first code released into open source via the
SIPfoundry online community." - this could be the OpenGroupware of the
VOIP world.  

And PingTel includes "Computer Telephony Integration (CTI)" code so that
Open Source products might actually be able to participate in real
Unified Messaging environments [finally].