[Asterisk-Dev] Re: Asterisk-Dev digest, Vol 1 #657 - 16 msgs
Don Feuer
dfeuer at cox.net
Fri May 21 12:22:17 MST 2004
I have asked Mark Spencer about a build of Asterisk for Sun, and he
wasn't so hot on the idea, although I am. I do have relationships at
SUN in regards to the voip application world (I ran a company that was
their VOIP company and showed with them at numerous shows).
I feel it would be a good idea to port the system over to Solaris Sparc
as it is a much more stable platform, and from a telephony point of
view, there are no other pieces of equipment which can scale and posses
the security that solaris does.
If there is a real interest in the pursuit of building a platform that
runs on SOLARIS SPARC as well as Solaris x86 and I have the support of
the community I will gladly take the lead on doing so and get SUN's
support on it.
Thanks!
Don Feuer
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> 1. Solaris Port (was: asterisk-users: Re: Fedora Core 2 and Kernel
> 2.6) (John Todd)
> 2. Re: Solaris Port (was: asterisk-users: Re: Fedora
> Core 2 and Kernel 2.6) (Olle E. Johansson)
> 3. Re: Solaris Port (was: asterisk-users: Re: Fedora Core 2 and Kernel 2.6) (Chris Albertson)
> 4. Re: Solaris Port (was: asterisk-users: Re: Fedora
> Core 2 and Kernel 2.6) (John Todd)
> 5. Re: Solaris Port (was: asterisk-users: Re: Fedora
> Core 2 and Kernel 2.6) (Bob Knight)
> 6. MSSQL2000 + cdr_odbc.c fix (WAS: problem with cdr_odbc) (brian)
> 7. Re: MSSQL2000 + cdr_odbc.c fix (WAS: problem with
> cdr_odbc) (Pablo Endres)
> 8. RE: MSSQL2000 + cdr_odbc.c fix (WAS: problem with cdr_odbc) (brian)
> 9. need phones with line and call indicators (Bob Kreider)
> 10. Re: Solaris Port (was: asterisk-users: Re: Fedora Core 2 and Kernel 2.6) (Steve Kennedy)
> 11. Re: Solaris Port (was: asterisk-users: Re: Fedora Core 2 and Kernel 2.6) (Steve Kennedy)
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 13:52:29 -0700
> To: asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com
> From: John Todd <jtodd at loligo.com>
> Subject: [Asterisk-Dev] Solaris Port (was: asterisk-users: Re: Fedora Core 2 and Kernel
> 2.6)
> Reply-To: asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com
>
>
> At 10:29 AM -0700 on 5/20/04, Bob Knight wrote:
> [snip]
> >If you hit a wall trying to get intel based boxes to do the job, let me know.
> >I am working on a SunOS port. It would be fun to see this running
> >on a Sun Fire server.
> >Should be able to scale it to 1000+ rooms. Only problem, servers
> >run from about 50k to a million.
> >That's like real money. But it would still be fun.
> >
> >btw: this is not a very pretty port. The current state of the *
> >source tree does not lend itself
> >very well to other OS's. Quite a bit of hacking involved.
> >Something that I would never
> >want to see checked into cvs.
> >
> >--
> >Bob Knight
> >[-w] the work option
> >bk at minusw.com
> >925-449-9163
>
>
> Well, if it can be done with a series of reasonably-documented
> #define's and whatnot, then I don't see why it wouldn't be committed
> to CVS. Having Solaris interoperability would be actually a very
> nice feather in Asterisk's cap, since (for whatever reasons) Solaris
> is a widely-used and supported telephony platform.
>
> While I am extremely vague on the details, I recall that there are
> some "special" instructions in the UltraSparc chipset that handle
> FFT's and other nifty things, which might also lend themselves to
> large-scale, fast transcoding. Now, that might have been video-only
> - I don't recall... but I know a guy who used those routines to do
> real-time encoding of 16 (!!!!) ~150kbps IP video streams for
> motion-detection frame comparison, video storage, and other nifty
> features, all in a single 440mhz Netra X1. Perhaps someone with an
> actual clue about Solaris and Sparc programming could comment on the
> viability of this for Asterisk's purposes if a port were to be made...
>
> JT
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 23:03:32 +0200
> From: "Olle E. Johansson" <oej at edvina.net>
> Organization: Edvina AB
> To: asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Dev] Solaris Port (was: asterisk-users: Re: Fedora
> Core 2 and Kernel 2.6)
> Reply-To: asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com
>
> John Todd wrote:
>
> >
> > At 10:29 AM -0700 on 5/20/04, Bob Knight wrote:
> > [snip]
> >
> >> If you hit a wall trying to get intel based boxes to do the job, let
> >> me know.
> >> I am working on a SunOS port. It would be fun to see this running on
> >> a Sun Fire server.
> >> Should be able to scale it to 1000+ rooms. Only problem, servers run
> >> from about 50k to a million.
> >> That's like real money. But it would still be fun.
> >>
> >> btw: this is not a very pretty port. The current state of the *
> >> source tree does not lend itself
> >> very well to other OS's. Quite a bit of hacking involved. Something
> >> that I would never
> >> want to see checked into cvs.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Bob Knight
> >> [-w] the work option
> >> bk at minusw.com
> >> 925-449-9163
> >
> >
> >
> > Well, if it can be done with a series of reasonably-documented #define's
> > and whatnot, then I don't see why it wouldn't be committed to CVS.
> > Having Solaris interoperability would be actually a very nice feather in
> > Asterisk's cap, since (for whatever reasons) Solaris is a widely-used
> > and supported telephony platform.
> >
> > While I am extremely vague on the details, I recall that there are some
> > "special" instructions in the UltraSparc chipset that handle FFT's and
> > other nifty things, which might also lend themselves to large-scale,
> > fast transcoding. Now, that might have been video-only - I don't
> > recall... but I know a guy who used those routines to do real-time
> > encoding of 16 (!!!!) ~150kbps IP video streams for motion-detection
> > frame comparison, video storage, and other nifty features, all in a
> > single 440mhz Netra X1. Perhaps someone with an actual clue about
> > Solaris and Sparc programming could comment on the viability of this for
> > Asterisk's purposes if a port were to be made...
> >
> During my investigations on recursive mutexes (yeah, FreeBSD) I've found
> out that Solaris is rumoured not to support recursive mutexes at all.
>
> Another one bites the dust. OS X seems to be in the same position.
>
> FreeBSD supports recursive mutexes, we just need some code.
> For Solaris and OS X, we need a emulation layer.
>
> Looking forward to patches for Solaris on the bug tracker!
> Need SUN sponsoring Astricon :-)
>
> /O
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 14:54:05 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Chris Albertson <chrisalbertson90278 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Dev] Solaris Port (was: asterisk-users: Re: Fedora Core 2 and Kernel 2.6)
> To: asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com
> Reply-To: asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com
>
>
>
> I've got code which needs to run on Solaris (both i386 and SPARC)
> and on Linux/i386. plus a few other platforms.
>
> I'll tell you, you'll go nuts if you start filling your code
> with #ifdef SOLARIS or #ifdef BSD because then you find there
> are differences between Solaris versions so you will have
> #if inside #if and so on. And worse you will have the same
> code pasted in many places, once for each OS and version.
> Making a fix will changes to each place. And then a new
> version of an OS comes out and breaks stuff. You'll go nuts.
>
> The way to handle this is NOT to do it. Insted use things like
> "#ifdef HAVE strlcat" and then you use GNU Autoconf to figure out
> at build time if the system has an "strlcat()" or if you need to
> use "strncat()" or maybe just "strcat()", The code will remain
> "clean" and there will be a very good chance things will
> "just work" on a new platform and no "port" will be required.
>
> I once used this method on a port that went from SunOS to Solaris
> to BSD and then I tried that "new OS" called "Linux" and
> it "just worked" this was on abut 50K lines of C code mostly
> X11 based.
>
> In My Opinion, Solaris/SPARC is a very good platform for Asterisk.
> for high-end systems.
>
> While you can spend $1 million on a SUN server. Sun will sell
> you a complete Sun Fire V100 server for $995 I've seen these
> and had one on my desk for a while. It's a 1U tall rackmount box.
> At under one grand they compete well with rackmount Pentiums
>
>
>
>
>
> --- John Todd <jtodd at loligo.com> wrote:
> >
> > At 10:29 AM -0700 on 5/20/04, Bob Knight wrote:
> > [snip]
> > >If you hit a wall trying to get intel based boxes to do the job, let
> > me know.
> > >I am working on a SunOS port. It would be fun to see this running
> > >on a Sun Fire server.
> > >Should be able to scale it to 1000+ rooms. Only problem, servers
> > >run from about 50k to a million.
> > >That's like real money. But it would still be fun.
> > >
> > >btw: this is not a very pretty port. The current state of the *
> > >source tree does not lend itself
> > >very well to other OS's. Quite a bit of hacking involved.
> > >Something that I would never
> > >want to see checked into cvs.
> > >
> > >--
> > >Bob Knight
> > >[-w] the work option
> > >bk at minusw.com
> > >925-449-9163
> >
> >
> > Well, if it can be done with a series of reasonably-documented
> > #define's and whatnot, then I don't see why it wouldn't be committed
> > to CVS. Having Solaris interoperability would be actually a very
> > nice feather in Asterisk's cap, since (for whatever reasons) Solaris
> > is a widely-used and supported telephony platform.
> >
> > While I am extremely vague on the details, I recall that there are
> > some "special" instructions in the UltraSparc chipset that handle
> > FFT's and other nifty things, which might also lend themselves to
> > large-scale, fast transcoding. Now, that might have been video-only
> > - I don't recall... but I know a guy who used those routines to do
> > real-time encoding of 16 (!!!!) ~150kbps IP video streams for
> > motion-detection frame comparison, video storage, and other nifty
> > features, all in a single 440mhz Netra X1. Perhaps someone with an
> > actual clue about Solaris and Sparc programming could comment on the
> > viability of this for Asterisk's purposes if a port were to be
> > made...
> >
> > JT
> > _______________________________________________
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>
> =====
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> Message: 4
> Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 14:52:34 -0700
> To: asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com
> From: John Todd <jtodd at loligo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Dev] Solaris Port (was: asterisk-users: Re: Fedora
> Core 2 and Kernel 2.6)
> Reply-To: asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com
>
> At 11:03 PM +0200 on 5/20/04, Olle E. Johansson wrote:
> >[snip]
> >
> >Looking forward to patches for Solaris on the bug tracker!
> >Need SUN sponsoring Astricon :-)
> >
> >/O
>
> It's funny that you mention that. The guy that I know at Sun (he was
> the "evangelist" for the Cobalt division) just announced that he was
> leaving. Too bad; I had started to chip away at him for getting Sun
> to look into Asterisk, because it would work fine on their
> Linux-based platforms, and Sun/Cobalt could offer some serious help
> towards the user interface and administrative tools being built.
>
> Anyone know anyone else at Sun that might be able to see the wisdom
> and revenue potential of Asterisk's implementation on a Sun platform
> (Solaris preferred)?
>
> JT
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 15:16:44 -0700
> From: Bob Knight <bk at minusw.com>
> To: asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Dev] Solaris Port (was: asterisk-users: Re: Fedora
> Core 2 and Kernel 2.6)
> Reply-To: asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com
>
> John Todd wrote:
>
> > At 11:03 PM +0200 on 5/20/04, Olle E. Johansson wrote:
> >
> >> [snip]
> >>
> >> Looking forward to patches for Solaris on the bug tracker!
> >> Need SUN sponsoring Astricon :-)
> >>
> >> /O
> >
> >
> > It's funny that you mention that. The guy that I know at Sun (he was
> > the "evangelist" for the Cobalt division) just announced that he was
> > leaving. Too bad; I had started to chip away at him for getting Sun
> > to look into Asterisk, because it would work fine on their Linux-based
> > platforms, and Sun/Cobalt could offer some serious help towards the
> > user interface and administrative tools being built.
> >
> > Anyone know anyone else at Sun that might be able to see the wisdom
> > and revenue potential of Asterisk's implementation on a Sun platform
> > (Solaris preferred)?
>
> I worked with Scott McNealy at a company called Onyx. I usually see him
> at our reunions.
> I am sure I could get in touch with him, but I am the farthest thing
> from any kind of sales/pitch dude.
>
> I was referring to Solaris.. It is just that the output of "uname -s"
> reports SunOS (ie: OSARCH in the Makfile).
>
> --
> Bob Knight
> [-w] the work option
> bk at minusw.com
> 925-449-9163
>
>
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 6
> From: "brian" <brian at bkw.org>
> To: <asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com>
> Cc: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
> Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 17:43:14 -0500
> Organization: BKW.ORG
> Subject: [Asterisk-Dev] MSSQL2000 + cdr_odbc.c fix (WAS: problem with cdr_odbc)
> Reply-To: asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com
>
> http://asterisk.bkw.org/diff/cdr_odbc.diff
>
> Now this should fix it the proper way.
>
> bkw
> PS: Thanks for the info klasstek!
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: asterisk-dev-admin at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-dev-
> > admin at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Pablo Endres
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 3:30 PM
> > To: asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com
> > Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Dev] problem with cdr_odbc
> >
> > Oka I fixed the problem with cdr_odbc. Here's what I did:
> >
> > I found that there was a problem with the freetds driver to
> > MSSQL2000 with the datetime and the prepared statements.
> >
> > So I rewrote the code using SQLExecDirect in it's place.
> >
> > Now how do I summit the code to de CVS? Maybe just make a patch in the
> > makefile.. so when you compile for freetds you can use this
> > version.
> >
> > Just an idea.
> >
> > Please let me know
> >
> > Pablo
> >
> >
> > --
> > Pablo Endres <epablo at comvoz.com>
> > ComVoz Comunications
> >
> > _______________________________________________
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> Message: 7
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Dev] MSSQL2000 + cdr_odbc.c fix (WAS: problem with
> cdr_odbc)
> From: Pablo Endres <epablo at comvoz.com>
> To: asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com
> Organization: ComVoz Comunications
> Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 19:22:50 -0400
> Reply-To: asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com
>
> Works ok execpt that the Datetime is now date.
> Thinking on a solution
>
> Pablo
>
>
> On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 18:43, brian wrote:
> > http://asterisk.bkw.org/diff/cdr_odbc.diff
> >
> > Now this should fix it the proper way.
> >
> > bkw
> > PS: Thanks for the info klasstek!
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: asterisk-dev-admin at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-dev-
> > > admin at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Pablo Endres
> > > Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 3:30 PM
> > > To: asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com
> > > Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Dev] problem with cdr_odbc
> > >
> > > Oka I fixed the problem with cdr_odbc. Here's what I did:
> > >
> > > I found that there was a problem with the freetds driver to
> > > MSSQL2000 with the datetime and the prepared statements.
> > >
> > > So I rewrote the code using SQLExecDirect in it's place.
> > >
> > > Now how do I summit the code to de CVS? Maybe just make a patch in the
> > > makefile.. so when you compile for freetds you can use this
> > > version.
> > >
> > > Just an idea.
> > >
> > > Please let me know
> > >
> > > Pablo
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Pablo Endres <epablo at comvoz.com>
> > > ComVoz Comunications
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Asterisk-Dev mailing list
> > > Asterisk-Dev at lists.digium.com
> > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-dev
> > > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:
> > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-dev
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
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> --
> Pablo Endres <epablo at comvoz.com>
> ComVoz Comunications
>
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 8
> From: "brian" <brian at bkw.org>
> To: <asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com>
> Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Dev] MSSQL2000 + cdr_odbc.c fix (WAS: problem with cdr_odbc)
> Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 18:25:46 -0500
> Organization: BKW.ORG
> Reply-To: asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com
>
> Fixed this one line it should all be good now.,
>
> SQLBindParameter(ODBC_stmt, 1, SQL_PARAM_INPUT, SQL_C_CHAR, SQL_CHAR,
> sizeof(timestr), 0, ×tr, 0, NULL);
>
> I had sizeof(×tr) which was wrong.
>
> bkw
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: asterisk-dev-admin at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-dev-
> > admin at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of brian
> > Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 5:43 PM
> > To: asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com
> > Cc: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> > Subject: [Asterisk-Dev] MSSQL2000 + cdr_odbc.c fix (WAS: problem with
> > cdr_odbc)
> >
> > http://asterisk.bkw.org/diff/cdr_odbc.diff
> >
> > Now this should fix it the proper way.
> >
> > bkw
> > PS: Thanks for the info klasstek!
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: asterisk-dev-admin at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-dev-
> > > admin at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Pablo Endres
> > > Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 3:30 PM
> > > To: asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com
> > > Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Dev] problem with cdr_odbc
> > >
> > > Oka I fixed the problem with cdr_odbc. Here's what I did:
> > >
> > > I found that there was a problem with the freetds driver to
> > > MSSQL2000 with the datetime and the prepared statements.
> > >
> > > So I rewrote the code using SQLExecDirect in it's place.
> > >
> > > Now how do I summit the code to de CVS? Maybe just make a patch in the
> > > makefile.. so when you compile for freetds you can use this
> > > version.
> > >
> > > Just an idea.
> > >
> > > Please let me know
> > >
> > > Pablo
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Pablo Endres <epablo at comvoz.com>
> > > ComVoz Comunications
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Asterisk-Dev mailing list
> > > Asterisk-Dev at lists.digium.com
> > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-dev
> > > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:
> > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-dev
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Asterisk-Dev mailing list
> > Asterisk-Dev at lists.digium.com
> > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-dev
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>
>
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> Message: 9
> From: "Bob Kreider" <bob at abcrun.com>
> To: <asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com>
> Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 19:29:38 -0400
> Subject: [Asterisk-Dev] need phones with line and call indicators
> Reply-To: asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com
>
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> thanks.
> Bob
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> Message: 10
> Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 00:31:48 +0100
> From: Steve Kennedy <steve-asterisk at gbnet.net>
> To: asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Dev] Solaris Port (was: asterisk-users: Re: Fedora Core 2 and Kernel 2.6)
> Reply-To: asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com
>
> On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 01:52:29PM -0700, John Todd wrote:
>
> > At 10:29 AM -0700 on 5/20/04, Bob Knight wrote:
> > [snip]
> > >If you hit a wall trying to get intel based boxes to do the job, let me
> > >know.
> > >I am working on a SunOS port. It would be fun to see this running
> > >on a Sun Fire server.
> > >Should be able to scale it to 1000+ rooms. Only problem, servers
> > >run from about 50k to a million.
> > >That's like real money. But it would still be fun.
> > >btw: this is not a very pretty port. The current state of the *
> > >source tree does not lend itself
> > >very well to other OS's. Quite a bit of hacking involved.
> > >Something that I would never
> > >want to see checked into cvs.
> > Well, if it can be done with a series of reasonably-documented
> > #define's and whatnot, then I don't see why it wouldn't be committed
> > to CVS. Having Solaris interoperability would be actually a very
> > nice feather in Asterisk's cap, since (for whatever reasons) Solaris
> > is a widely-used and supported telephony platform.
>
> Because Solaris is a supported OS, and there's a lot of telephony
> hardware that runs in it (and Solaris libs, and a lot of Java effort
> into things like SIP). Sun also make 48V kit, which is what telephony
> companies use in their racks.
>
> > While I am extremely vague on the details, I recall that there are
> > some "special" instructions in the UltraSparc chipset that handle
> > FFT's and other nifty things, which might also lend themselves to
> > large-scale, fast transcoding. Now, that might have been video-only
> > - I don't recall... but I know a guy who used those routines to do
> > real-time encoding of 16 (!!!!) ~150kbps IP video streams for
> > motion-detection frame comparison, video storage, and other nifty
> > features, all in a single 440mhz Netra X1. Perhaps someone with an
> > actual clue about Solaris and Sparc programming could comment on the
> > viability of this for Asterisk's purposes if a port were to be made...
>
> Have a look for Sun's MediaLib on www.sun.com
>
> Steve
>
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> Message: 11
> Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 00:33:22 +0100
> From: Steve Kennedy <steve-asterisk at gbnet.net>
> To: asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Dev] Solaris Port (was: asterisk-users: Re: Fedora Core 2 and Kernel 2.6)
> Reply-To: asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com
>
> On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 02:52:34PM -0700, John Todd wrote:
>
> > At 11:03 PM +0200 on 5/20/04, Olle E. Johansson wrote:
> > >[snip]
> > >Looking forward to patches for Solaris on the bug tracker!
> > >Need SUN sponsoring Astricon :-)
> > It's funny that you mention that. The guy that I know at Sun (he was
> > the "evangelist" for the Cobalt division) just announced that he was
> > leaving. Too bad; I had started to chip away at him for getting Sun
> > to look into Asterisk, because it would work fine on their
> > Linux-based platforms, and Sun/Cobalt could offer some serious help
> > towards the user interface and administrative tools being built.
> > Anyone know anyone else at Sun that might be able to see the wisdom
> > and revenue potential of Asterisk's implementation on a Sun platform
> > (Solaris preferred)?
>
> There ARE Sun people on this list, and some who've been looking at SIP
> stuff.
>
> Steve
>
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