asterisk users - Jun 2006 - Oh oh. Micro$oft just noticed VoIP

It will be interesting to see how many standards get broken, and how 
many proprietary hooks get thrown into the pot.  The bean counters smell 
some money, and their OS franchise is waning:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/26/technology/26soft.html

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On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 13:16 -0400, Brian Capouch wrote:
> It will be interesting to see how many standards get broken, and how 
> many proprietary hooks get thrown into the pot.  The bean counters smell 
> some money, and their OS franchise is waning:
> 
> http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/26/technology/26soft.html
> 
and they have been working with cisco on ice (which is standards based,
although ice is more of an extension to sip than anything else).  But
shhh that doesnt help the people that want to bash for no other reason
than they can!


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They have been talking about this for awhile.  If you look at the real time
and embedded operating system world they have not really done so well over
the many years they have been trying. Just throwing money at the problem has
never worked for them in the past either.  

The Asterisk community has nothing to worry about in the near term if ever
IMHO.
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> From: Brian Capouch [mailto:brianc@palaver.net] 
> Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 10:16 AM
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> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Oh oh. Micro$oft just noticed VoIP
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> It will be interesting to see how many standards get broken, 
> and how many proprietary hooks get thrown into the pot.  The 
> bean counters smell some money, and their OS franchise is waning:
> 
> http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/26/technology/26soft.html
> 
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On Tue, June 27, 2006 0:26, shadowym said:
> They have been talking about this for awhile.  If you look at the real
> time
> and embedded operating system world they have not really done so well over
> the many years they have been trying. Just throwing money at the problem
> has
> never worked for them in the past either.
Perhaps because people expect devices like that to Just Work(tm),
something Embedded Linux is better known for than Embedded Windows is?...
> The Asterisk community has nothing to worry about in the near term if ever
> IMHO.
>
Unless they buy Digium... That'd give them a serious amount of code to
obfuscate and hide in closed source products!   ;-)

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Brian Capouch wrote:
> It will be interesting to see how many standards get broken, and how
> many proprietary hooks get thrown into the pot.  The bean counters
> smell some money, and their OS franchise is waning:
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/26/technology/26soft.html
>
Its all bad news interoperability wise.

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