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 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
trixter aka Bret McDanel
2006-Jun-26 11:30 UTC
[Asterisk-Users] Oh oh. Micro$oft just noticed VoIP
On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 13:16 -0400, Brian Capouch wrote:> It will be interesting to see how many standards get broken, and how > many proprietary hooks get thrown into the pot. The bean counters smell > some money, and their OS franchise is waning: > > http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/26/technology/26soft.html >and they have been working with cisco on ice (which is standards based, although ice is more of an extension to sip than anything else). But shhh that doesnt help the people that want to bash for no other reason than they can! -- Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com Bret McDanel Belfast IE +44 28 9099 6461 DE +49 801 777 555 3402 Utrecht NL +31 306 553058 US WA +1 360 207 0479 US NY +1 516 687 5200 FreeWorldDialup: 635378 http://www.trxtel.com the VoIP provider that pays you! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20060626/dc8e01bb/attachment.pgp
They have been talking about this for awhile. If you look at the real time and embedded operating system world they have not really done so well over the many years they have been trying. Just throwing money at the problem has never worked for them in the past either. The Asterisk community has nothing to worry about in the near term if ever IMHO.> -----Original Message----- > From: Brian Capouch [mailto:brianc@palaver.net] > Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 10:16 AM > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Oh oh. Micro$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 > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous > content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. > > >
Francesco Peeters (Asterisk)
2006-Jun-26 23:04 UTC
[Asterisk-Users] Oh oh. Micro$oft just noticed VoIP
On Tue, June 27, 2006 0:26, shadowym said:> They have been talking about this for awhile. If you look at the real > time > and embedded operating system world they have not really done so well over > the many years they have been trying. Just throwing money at the problem > has > never worked for them in the past either.Perhaps because people expect devices like that to Just Work(tm), something Embedded Linux is better known for than Embedded Windows is?...> The Asterisk community has nothing to worry about in the near term if ever > IMHO. >Unless they buy Digium... That'd give them a serious amount of code to obfuscate and hide in closed source products! ;-) -- F Peeters PIII 450 - 1 GB - * 1.2 - BRIstuff 0.3.0 Pre 1 - Florz patch 2 Sweex HFC-PCI modes=0 sync_slave=0 timer_card=0 AMD Duron 1GHz - 1GB - * 1.2.1 - vISDN 2 Sweex HFC-PCI cards
Rodney G. McDuff
2006-Jun-27 16:36 UTC
[Asterisk-Users] Oh oh. Micro$oft just noticed VoIP
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. -- Dr. Rodney G. McDuff |Ex ignorantia ad sapientiam Manager, Strategic Technologies Group| Ex luce ad tenebras Information Technology Services | The University of Queensland | EMAIL: mcduff@its.uq.edu.au | TELEPHONE: +61 7 3365 8220 | -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: Christian Schlatter <ch@schlatter.net> Subject: Re: [tf-vvc] Microsoft sends message on 'unified messaging' Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:38:17 -0400 Size: 4914 Url: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20060627/323704a2/AttachedMessage.eml