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The Asterisk development team is pleased to announce new releases of Asterisk, Asterisk-Addons, Zaptel, and for the first time, DAHDI.
This is a set of coordinated releases intended to begin the transition from Zaptel to DAHDI; for the reasons why this is being done, please see:
http://blogs.digium.com/2008/05/19/zaptel-project-being-renamed-to-dahdi/
The list of packages released today includes:

zaptel 1.2.27
zaptel 1.4.12
dahdi-linux 2.0.0-rc3
dahdi-tools 2.0.0-rc2
dahdi-linux-complete [...]

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I found this article very interesting. It is a roundtable discussion with Mark Spencer and 10 others with varying views on the state of the open source world. The group includes Bruce Perens, Eric Raymond, Chris DiBona, and others.
Check out the article here.

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I am extremely proud to be able to point out that Digium has acquired Switchvox.
Switchvox is an amazing packaged PBX system that is based on Asterisk. A team from Digium did an extensive analysis of the products available in this area, and concluded that the Switchvox package was superior in terms of features as [...]

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Linux Insider has posted Part 2 of their article on some of the impacts of open source software on the corporate world. There is more discussion of Asterisk in this article.
The open source Asterisk digital PBX (public branch exchange) platform “is the most interoperable, flexible and feature rich PBX in the market today,” asserted [...]

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Linux Insider has an article on open source software and its impact on the corporate world. It mentions Asterisk for its impact on the traditional telephony market and its use in the corporate world’s transition toward the use of VoIP.
Asterisk-based VoIP applications and appliances have been downloaded by business phone system users more [...]

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