[Kamailio-Users] Project continuity and near future.

[Alan Crosswell]

Hey, it's an <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akamai">akamai</A> 
name:-)  I only wish I could pronounce it.
/a

Alex Balashov wrote:
> Daniel-Constantin Mierla wrote:
> 
>> Everyone agrees that openser was becoming an important brand and we 
>> believe it could be the main reason we got targeted for name conflicts 
>> and trademarks. In such situation is hard to take a decision in a way or 
>> another. The one with the lowest financial and resources investment 
>> seemed to be renaming.
> 
> This is definitely understandable.  To be clear, I was not questioning 
> the rationale, and I don't think it serves the project well to engage in 
> a large-scale panic referendum on this move in light of that.
> 
> 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.
> 
> But that's just one person's impression.  At any rate, it does not 
> change the fact that the nomenclature change was necessary.  It's just 
> nomenclature, after all;  I don't like "Alex" all that much either, but 
> hopefully it does not do much to summarise the content of my 
> individuality to others in a professional setting or otherwise.  :)
> 
> I know that I ran into name issues with OpenSER on a number of 
> occasions.  One, everyone got it confused with IPTel's SER and wanted to 
> know the difference, and two, there is a vendor of expensive predictive 
> dialing/telemarketing hardware called SER.  In the rather unlikely event 
> that you end up doing work for an IT-centric mortgage company in the US, 
> as I did, these two worlds somehow converge.  :)
> 
> 
>> 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.
> 
> That is an enormous relief to hear authoritatively!
> 
> Best of luck, and long live Kamailio.
> 
> -- Alex
>