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Fonality Acquires Trixbox
An anonymous reader writes "MySQL's Brian Aker has a good commentary on the big news in acquisitions today that Fonality has acquired Trixbox, the Linux Telephony distribution." From the article: "So why is this big news? Trixbox is the distribution for telephony on Linux today. They have put together a vertical Linux distribution dedicated to telephony. It combines Asterisk with a web based interface backed by MySQL, integrated into the SugarCRM solution. As Redhat today is the LAMP of the IT Enterprise and Web Framework, (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl/PHP), Trixbox is the LAMP stack of the Telephony market, Linux , Asterisk, MySQL, Perl/PHP."
Am I the only one who saw this headline and wondered just who either of these companies were?
/. headline involve at least one company I've *heard* of...
Usually, company acquisitions worthy of a
They have put together a vertical Linux distribution dedicated to telephony.
As opposed to a horizontal linux distribution dedicated to telephony? As opposed to a diagonal distribution? A vertical distribution that is dedicated to something other than telephony?
The sentence up there is composed as if it conveyed some kind of information, but that may be misleading...
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I'm not sure the Fonality acquisition is a good or bad thing.
I'm hoping they'll put some funds and people towards working out the bugs rather than adding more features.
I really like asterisk and AMP/FreePBX make it easy to manage. If I could fix a few issues such as low volume on bridged zaptel calls, timeouts that don't work for custom extensions (such as to my cell phone) that cause unanswered calls to go to my cell phone's voicemail instead of asterisk's, and an annoying dtmf issue where extensions that are typed in aren't always recognized (related to rx/txgain I think) I'd start deploying it for my customers.
Great job with FreePBX. It's an outstanding piece of work!
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