Open source fans see Linux fortunes climb, Mar 27, 2004

It might have seemed to be the best possible week for boosters of the Linux open-source operating system.

As their nemesis, Microsoft Corp., was getting sanctioned by Europe for anticompetitive trespasses, computer giant Hewlett-Packard Co. gave Linux a new vote of confidence, and the largest Linux distributor posted strong financial results.

Yet uncertainty still surrounds the community-built software's ability to chip away at Windows' dominance, particularly on desktop computers.

Pingtel Corp., a provider of SIP-based Voice-over-IP (VoIP) solutions for enterprise communications, will be releasing on Monday its Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) software platform into the Open Source world.

The objective: to do for IP telephony what Apache and Linux have rendered for enterprise servers – bring the technology to the masses at next to no cost. The company has already moved its entire enterprise communications suite, including the company’s SIPxchange IP PBX platform, into Open Source domain.

Embedded Linux enabled engineers at Zultys to incorporate an astonishing range of functions and features in the new Zip 4x5 phone. Alongside VoIP features impressive in their own right, the 4x5 offers an integrated VPN router, switch, firewall, and analog phone. But wait -- there's more!

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