An open source group has posted free Session Initiation Protocol-based PBX software that lets businesses create their own phone switches from standard Linux servers – but drawing business customers to ...

The bad economy may be a boon to relatively inexpensive open-source IP PBXs, which one study says already account for nearly 18% of all PBXs installed last year in North American business networks.

The Asterisk PBX platform has been around for nine years and has drawn interest from a wide range of end users and businesses looking to expand on the basic software or add peripherals to make it more ...

The Tarrytown, N.Y.-based distributor claims the online configurator is the first of its kind and is available to all Westcon Group resellers registered in its CollaborationPoint OpenSource program.

Asterisk, a highly sophisticated open source PBX software package that runs on commodity hardware running Linux or pretty much any other operating system with GCC (GNU Compiler Collection), is the ...

Skype has decided not to renew an agreement that allows open-source telephony system Asterisk to be integrated with the service using software developed with Digium. The decision is more about a ...

For every yin, there’s a yang; for every action, a reaction; and for every piece of proprietary software, there’s an open source alternative. Or something like that. There are potential downsides to ...