We use Linux and Astrisk for VoIP. While not BSD it is opensource so you can ask the various Astrisk support companies to solv a problem or settle with one service provider.
Cheers On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 04:15:11PM -0400, Daniel Ouellet wrote: > J.C. Roberts wrote: > >Daniel, > > > >The story is the same across many areas of software "required" by > >business from office suites to EDA tools. The only thing that sucks > >worse than the technical side of vendor lock-in is the annual > >maintenance fees they charge. > > Well, yes the situation is not new. As long as they do stand behind > their side of it, it's OK, but when they start to see you as stuck with > them and then let go or their side of it, then.. I guess it's time to > break the wall. If possible! > > >The only open source SIP PBX software I know of written in Erlang is > >YXA (Swedish for ``axe''). Oddly enough, it's what you asked for, > >namely BSD licensed and under active development. > > > >http://www.stacken.kth.se/projekt/yxa/index.html > > > > Thanks and I will have a look at it. Hosted PBX is really what I am > after! But it got to be BSD and if I am going to break the store, I will > do it on OpenBSD for the track records with the OS underneath! > > There is a few thinks that make me break it of with the few I sent and > the fact that they will switch it from Solaris to Linux. Not that I am a > big fan of Solaris, no offense intended to anyone believe me, but going > from that to Linux is making me VERY nervous at best! > > So, time to break it all! -- Exit! Stage Left! "Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic". (Anonymous)

