Can you imagine!?! That would be the most brillant thing they could do! They should also open up their platform so people can port Linux, BSD and what-all-else to it. Oh, and drop the price a bit while their at it!
The whole Linksys/Linux/Cisco thing really fascinates me. The things people are doing with the Linksys routers must have a lot of Cisco people wondering what the future is going to look like.
And as for Call Manager? I predict that they will be officially Asterisk-compliant in . . . hmmm . . . I'll say roughly five years or so. Possibly far sooner if they yank their heads out of their asses and grab a clue. Asterisk is destined to do for telecom what Linux did for the OS. In five years, many big names will be waving the Asterisk flag in the exact same way they are with Linux. Mark my words.
I keep wondering what would hapen if Microsoft were to OS the whole Windows platform. That'd change everything, eh?
[falls asleep and starts dreaming...]
Could you image Digium (or anyone else up to the challenge) making an OS phone! I know this is counter to the whole idea of not being locked to a particular vendor for your phones (part of the point of *), but I would still love the idea of a phone with *very* high quality at the hardware level, that exposes _as much as possible_ to the "end user". I know this is basically asking someone to create a computer with a headset/speaker/microphone and make it look like a phone, but... oh how sweet it would be.
[entering even deeper sleep state...]
Your boss walks up to you and says he needs the phones to do this fancy new thing he just heard about somebody else's system being able to do. Worse yet, he wants a 'soft-key' for it! No problem, edit the source code to the firmware for the phone, add the required code to make the phone do it. What's this, * doesn't support the required stuff at the other end, just write an app, put it somewhere, and bam, the whole thing works.
[starting to come to reality, not quite there yet...]
At this point, unless your boss simply wants nicer hardware (color touch screen lcd for example), or you finally hit the limitation of the hardware of the phone, you will _never_ need to buy another phone.
[wakes up from dream]
Huh?
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