29 Jul
2008
29 Jul
'08
3:59 a.m.
On Monday 28 July 2008, Alex Balashov wrote:
[..]
Personally, from a purely aesthetic viewpoint, I am not sure that
"Kamailio" was the best choice for a replacement name. It is hard to
remember to spell and sounds overly exotic, in stark contrast to the
no-nonsense technical professionalism and humourless objectivity
commanded by a word like "OpenSER." Kamailio sounds more like
something full of non-genetically modified soy, maybe with some goat
cheese, organic, vegan, and Silicon Valley / "VoIP 2.0" - sort of like
the "Yate" B2BUA. I think it's more likely that staunchly conservative
telco executives are going to gloss over something like that than
something more imposing and Anglo-accessible.
Hi Alex,
nice associations. :-) In constrast to the old one is the new name probably
really exotic. But its surprisingly hard to find a name with free domains,
that lacks trademarks and so on. And after all, if you look at "akamai", then
hawaian words are not that rare in the telco world..
The companies and developers around the project will
continue to support
and develop the project as before. The new major release will be with
the new name and version 1.4.0 -- simply is just a renaming, no other
changes.
Henning
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Henning Westerholt - Development Consumer Products / DSL Core
Core developer Kamailio project (formerly known as OpenSER)
1&1 Internet AG, Ernst-Frey-Str. 9, 76135 Karlsruhe, Germany