September 27, 2005 – 1:01 pm
A friend pinged me this morning and asked why I was so negative on Asterisk. It’s a good question, and let me make one thing clear - I’m not all negative about it. I think that Asterisk is a wonderful thing in many ways. It’s been the first and most succesful open source effort [...]
September 26, 2005 – 10:30 am
Well, thanks to the History channel, I have my answer about why Asterisk bothers me so much.
I was watching this show on Sunday morning (yes, before church, Mom), and they had a show on about a spy. As part of the show, they mentioned this German airplane that was a “fighter bomber specially modified for [...]
September 23, 2005 – 10:07 am
Brazenly stolen from a Network World article… Mad Dog tells us exactly why open source will be succesful:
“You must be telecommunications people who expect your software to work,” said speaker John “maddog” Hall, executive director of Linux International. His riposte came after he received a smaller-than-expected response to his request for a show of hands [...]
September 21, 2005 – 11:21 pm
The real problem with the VON show is the speed of it all. It really moves super-fast, and by the end of the day, you don’t even remember the beginning of it. I think it was a pretty good show, but it seems like it is now dominated by the larger companies selling larger [...]
September 19, 2005 – 11:43 pm
I suppose anyone who knows me knows I’m not a big fan of Asterisk. I’m just not a fan of any software, no… make that any THING, that purports to be all things to all people. Maybe that’s because I find it hard enough to be something to somebody. That aside, Mr. [...]
September 19, 2005 – 11:32 pm
Well, like the change of seasons, the VON show is now upon us, and I spent most of the day at the Open Source summit fishing for new ideas. Basically, I think I confirmed in my mind that the vast majority of success in open source has been in the Enterprise and new carrier [...]
September 16, 2005 – 3:39 pm
I suppose the cat’s out of the bag now… I’m officially resigned from Versatel Networks. Here’s the letter I’ve sent to family and friends…
==========================================Dear friends, family and co-workers,
It is with great regret that I’ve handed in my letter of resignation as CTO of Versatel Networks effective at the end of September. A recent family [...]
September 16, 2005 – 3:33 pm
I think I’ve come to a personal conclusion on where I’m going to spend my open source efforts : enterprises and smaller service providers. Coming from Versatel, I can see how even a company as excellent as they are have an uphill climb against the much larger Tier 1 vendors who supply to the [...]
September 13, 2005 – 2:46 pm
Sounds like a start on an open source applications platform for VoIP… from their site.
Shtoom is a open-source, cross-platform VoIP softphone, implemented in Python. As well as the basic phone, the package also includes a number of other applications -
shtoomphone - the end-user phonedoug - a framework for writing server-side voip applications.There’s a number of [...]
September 12, 2005 – 4:14 pm
monitoring software for VoIP. Measure QOS, traffic patterns, unauthorized intrusion? No real excellent CALEA story out there, never mind an open source effort around that. It’ll be important for nearly eveyone, and could really improve the quality of VoIP for every service provider, and ensure security for enterprises….I know that there are some good [...]