Big Asterisk.Trixbox news
Tom Keating sent a note out just a bit ago about this post of his
Fonality acquires trixbox
October 03, 2006
Fonality will announce tomorrow that they have acquired trixbox, formerly known as Asterisk@Home, and the the world's largest Asterisk-based community. Trixbox is a turn-key, bootable .iso CD image that can turn a PC with no OS into an Asterisk server with a variety of open source tools in just a few minutes. The trixbox application lets someone download a bootable .iso image that then automatically installs Linux, Asterisk, SugarCRM, MySQL, FreePBX, and a whole variety of other applications. Trixbox fully supports the Linux yum command and RPM ecosystem for performing updates and bug fixes.
This is really big news and will certainly be bouncing around the open source environment as a hot discussion topic for some time to come. Obviously there will be folks with concerns about what this purchase means to the open source community.
I haven't had a chance to dig in with any depth, but Tom has a great set of questions posted from his conversation with Chris Lyman, the CEO of Fonality.
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