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