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Don’t miss this week’s voice over IP news from Network World’s Phil Hochmuth, this week on LinuxWorld.com. Can you move 6,000 users from a mix of Cisco VoIP and a Nortel Meridian PBX to Linux servers running Asterisk? Sam Houston State University is doing it—keeping its existing Cisco phones, but saving the licensing fees for the back end.
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Digium debuts new Asterisk software, hardware appliance, 09/13/06
Digium this week released a version of its open-source Asterisk VoIP server as a hardware appliance, along with an updated version of the Asterisk code.
University dumps Cisco VoIP for open-source Asterisk, 09/12/06
Some organizations consider taking the plunge off of big iron PBX platforms into IP telephony as being pretty daring, but that’s nothing compared to what Sam Houston State University is doing.
China’s BLX takes Godson-2 processor to 1GHz, 9/13/06
China’s BLX IC Design Co. Ltd. has produced a prototype version of its Godson-2 processor that runs at a clock speed of 1GHz.
Going on a messaging client diet, 9/11/06
Thin messaging clients and alternative messaging servers are not exactly a new idea, but the capabilities inherent in the new generation of these systems are making them ever more viable for enterprises and smaller organizations alike.
Windows will beat Linux threat, say academics, 09/12/06
Major customers such as governments and large corporations are critical if Linux is ever to knock out the Windows monopoly, according to an upcoming economic study authored by two Harvard faculty members.
Red Hat beta includes Xen, 09/12/06
Red Hat Inc. has pushed out the first public beta of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, an upgrade to its operating system that includes Xen virtualization.
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LinuxWorld Community, 09/15/06
A reader asks what PowerPoint presentations are doing at a Linux event, and we reply. Is it better to focus on real compatibility problems than on legacy formats that you can open on Linux anyway?
