[asterisk-users] SER, OpenSER, Kamailio, OpenSIPS -- what are you using?

[Alex Balashov]

Also, both projects are open source, so they can (and do) take patches 
from each other both for bug fixes and for new features.

The smart project will take the good stuff from the other while 
simultaneously doing a better job of providing a commercial and 
political ecosystem that leads to serious adoption and the creation of 
new value.

 From my point of view, some of the most innovative contributors of code 
are on the OpenSIPS side (mostly the folks at the disposal of 
Bogdan-Andrei Iancu/voice-system.ro), but most of the judicious and 
sophisticated project management talent from the OpenSER group stayed 
with Kamailio, including Daniel-Constantin Mierla, Elena-Ramona Modroiu, 
Henning Westerholt, and Juha Heinanen - some of the other great minds 
that are strategically essential.

But arguing about which group is a better group of people to work with 
is just going to provoke a needless ad hominem flame war and further 
bitterness and strife.

Alex Balashov wrote:

> But, just to be clear, the answer to your question - or more precisely, 
> the answer to the question underlying your question ("WHY are you using 
> what you're using?") - is fundamentally political in its essence.
> 
> Most aspects of the case for one or the other have little to do with 
> technology.  At this time.
> 
> Alex Balashov wrote:
> 
>> At this point, it's six one, half dozen the other, although that may 
>> change with time.  Kamailio and SER appear to be joining forces.  But 
>> it's mostly a matter of your affinity with the community and the 
>> various political forces and personalities at this point.
>>
>> I personally am sticking with the Kamailio camp because I think they 
>> are doing a better job of creating a stable business environment 
>> around the project and doing things that are important to big-name 
>> adopters who are far more concerned about having something they can 
>> lean on than about coding, coding and coding.
>>
>> On the other hand, the OpenSIPS camp has proposed some very radical 
>> and potentially beneficial architectural changes if they are actually 
>> carried through.
>>
>> Still, at this point in time, six one & half-dozen the other, 
>> especially if you're talking about the core and stateful ("tm" module) 
>> functionality needed for things that fall under the rubric of 
>> "front-ending Asterisk."
>>
>> Steve Edwards wrote:
>>
>>> One of the above is frequently used to front-end Asterisk.
>>>
>>> I used OpenSER to front-end a farm of Asterisk servers and was very 
>>> happy with it. The ability to take a box out of service or to route a 
>>> specific DNIS to a box for testing rocks.
>>>
>>> Since OpenSER has died (I don't care about the 
>>> politics/personalities/trademarks), Kamailio and OpenSIPS have risen 
>>> from the ashes. What are you using? (I'm still using OpenSER 
>>> 1.3.1-notls.)
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> Steve Edwards      sedwards at sedwards.com      Voice: +1-760-468-3867 PST
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