Open Source VOIP will be bigger than Linux according to Jon “Maddog” Hall of Linux International as quoted by ZDNet UK.
“I predict that over next three years, VoIP using an open-source solution, such as Asterisk, will generate more business than the entire Linux marketplace today,” said Hall. “Today’s PBX solutions are incredibly expensive, closed source and proprietary. Asterisk is approximately one-tenth of the price of a proprietary PBX system.”
Coalescent Systems has Open Source’d (GPL) their Asterisk Management Portal, which provides a web-based GUI for many PBX tasks (adding extensions, IVR setup, ZAP trunks, reporting, etc). It does not support setting up SIP / IAX trunks yet, but it’s a step in the right direction.
Rapid Asterisk is a Debian-based auto-installer for Asterisk.
