TAPI is a farging joke. It came from a company that can hardly even make an OS that's stable, let alone understand the fundamentals and proper paradigms of a telephony switching interface.
A Linux Telephony Library should be created from scratch, by a person or organization that understands telephony (and doesn't just want to impose their own silly ideas to simply achieve domination of a growing and important technology realm).
NMS may have better boards than Dialogic but their API sucks hardcore. As for them releasing Linux drivers...really? Where? All I see is frivolous announcements of them releasing the source to their suckish API, but no driver as of yet.
They should've listened to me and started on this two years ago when I told them they were foolish for jumping headlong into NT and ignoring Linux. They could've been way ahead of the game already.
Same thing goes for Rhetorex (now Lucent) but at least they were more receptive than NMS was (and more honest about their decision).
Screw NMS! They'll never get my business.
Compliments to Pika for their efforts, although I must also give them a big THHRRT! for not doing this earlier as well.
All you PC-telephony board vendors have a lot of catching up to do. You all would have been in a much better position to capitalize on the Linux tsunami if you'd listened to my rantings three years ago, including an article prompting you to produce Linux drivers in CTI Magazine in 1996! I wasn't just a kook yammering on about some obscure operating system after all, now was I?
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TAPI is a farging joke. It came from a company that can hardly even make an OS that's stable, let alone understand the fundamentals and proper paradigms of a telephony switching interface.
A Linux Telephony Library should be created from scratch, by a person or organization that understands telephony (and doesn't just want to impose their own silly ideas to simply achieve domination of a growing and important technology realm).
NMS may have better boards than Dialogic but their API sucks hardcore. As for them releasing Linux drivers...really? Where? All I see is frivolous announcements of them releasing the source to their suckish API, but no driver as of yet.
They should've listened to me and started on this two years ago when I told them they were foolish for jumping headlong into NT and ignoring Linux. They could've been way ahead of the game already.
Same thing goes for Rhetorex (now Lucent) but at least they were more receptive than NMS was (and more honest about their decision).
Screw NMS! They'll never get my business.
Compliments to Pika for their efforts, although I must also give them a big THHRRT! for not doing this earlier as well.
All you PC-telephony board vendors have a lot of catching up to do. You all would have been in a much better position to capitalize on the Linux tsunami if you'd listened to my rantings three years ago, including an article prompting you to produce Linux drivers in CTI Magazine in 1996! I wasn't just a kook yammering on about some obscure operating system after all, now was I?
SCREW YOU ALL!