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