http://www.sangoma.com/press-releases/sangoma-completes-acquisition-two-bu sinesses/
Not sure who all here uses FreePBX for yourself or for customers, or both, but a to-date hardware-only vendor now controls the FreePBX project. I can't help but think about how this compares to when Fonality bought "Asterisk @ Home" (aka, "Trixbox") (which also had its basis with FreePBX as the GUI) with a whole lot of fanfare and promises to always be a "good fit" with the open source community. Well, as some of you probably well know, they ended up killing off Trixbox over the course of several years in favor of their closed-source software that Trixbox CE clearly competed with. Sangoma coughed up $4mil for Schmooze, Inc., and it isn't immediately clear how they'll fair shifting gears from a hardware only company to being an all around VoIP service provder. Schmooze has a commercial-only PBX too, called PBXact, which I'm not sure if it uses FreePBX or not. So, like with Fonality, the margins will likely be what ultimately dictates priorities. Hopefully, they'll always keep FreePBX's open source roots as a priority too. But already, over the past couple of years, Schmooze's focus has been to add more of FreePBX's new features as commercial-only modules. I sincerely hope Sangoma will prove to be a good steward, but I'm initially skeptical. The bad taste of Trixbox has not too soon been forgotten on me. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
