The JBoss guys have released a pretty nice new product, (well, at least it’s a new name), called the JBoss Collaboration Server.
What would really be nice would be to add Voice features to the collaboration suite, something that both Microsoft and Siemens have done to their respective competitive products. This would provide a nice alternative to Asterisk, one which could be based on a Java specification (JSR-116 or the new upcoming JSR-289), and one which would be based on standards such as VoiceXML, CCXML and MRCP.
But, then again, that would require JBoss to enter the telecom space I suppose and that might be challenging for them as Ken Lee’s pointed out in his blog about JBoss-based HotSip. JBoss only has one real telecom evangelist, Ivelin Ivanov. But Ivelin’s Mobicents has almost no play inside of the JBoss mind-meld it seems on the surface — to no fault of Ivelin’s I would suspect.
Maybe JBoss+RedHat should buy Asterisk? That would combine two large open source communities – sure – but would be somewhat of a technical disaster. The Asterisk codebase is horrible and pretty unstable. It’s also C (not even fully C++) and would be difficult to merge into the JBoss codebase, which of course is Java, and fairly next generation.
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