[Fwd: Re: [Serusers] SER or OpenSER]

I will add few remarks related to project's policy and evolution. OpenSER is driven by a board with members from different companies which will ensure project's independence and survival when one company changes its interest in the public project. Also, the project has a clear roadmap, major changes being discussed on development mailing list. People leading the project are two of the five core developers of SER and four main contributors of SER. The release policy is guided by changes and it is about one major release every 6-8 months. This type of releasing allow easy migration from older version to new one, otherwise the administrators will have nightmares to update to totally new configuration and database structure - small steps guarantee better results when dealing with production environments. The contributions are accepted if they follow a recognized standard from IETF/ITU/ETSI or other standardization groups, or is general interesting feature. No company can stop it for private interest. In this way we are able to implement geographic distributed VoIP platforms with the latest OpenSER, have a significant number of database types supported as backend via the unixodbc module in the stable version, these and may others only from third party contributions. Other important scalability features added in about one year of OpenSER: number of location entries which can be managed by OpenSER compiled with default flags grew from about 4000 entries as it was when it forked from SER to about 120 000, and now this number scales linear with available memory (for 120000 online users, OpenSER uses about 40MB memory, while the old architecture required about 256MB). I am sure you can find more on project's web site ... Cheers, Daniel On 07/16/06 13:06, Greger V. Teigre wrote: