I read this article "Doubts persist about open source IP telephony" as I was sitting on a conference call using a Polycom phone on our brand new Asterisk system. We deployed last week and I have to say it's been a pleasure thus far. The only issue I see is that its not that much less expensive than proprietary systems. You can however do lots of cool stuff that you can't do otherwise. At my last job we went with I read this article “Doubts persist about open source IP telephony” as I was sitting on a conference call using a Polycom phone on our brand new Asterisk system. We deployed last week and I have to say it’s been a pleasure thus far. The only issue I see is that its not that much less expensive than proprietary systems. You can however do lots of cool stuff that you can’t do otherwise. At my last job we went with the 3Com NBX, which was mostly good–with the exception of the fact that the switches would go a bit nuts sometimes and broadcast themselves to death. So far, so good with the Asterisk stuff. Although he thinks open source telephony is an “up and coming” technology, Cataldo’s attitude remains one of caution. “Until we do a lot of homework, we’re not just going to throw it on our tech stack,” he said. It’s odd to me that analysts think that OSS IP telephony is any less mature than proprietary IP telephony–it’s such a new industry I would argue that the OSS stuff has been tested much more and been through far more scenarios that proprietary tools. Open Source