[Serdev] So who/what is SER for, anyway?

[Dragos Vingarzan]

Martin Hoffmann wrote:
>
> > Come on guys, I am not the IMS advocate here. If you think it's bad and
> > want to avoid it at all costs, fine with me.
>
> I honestly don't care about IMS. I do think that there is not much room
> for open source in IMS, since it is telco stuff and they don't really
> trust anything open.
>
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I would disagree there. As the prices go down, open source becomes
attractive for them.

IMHO I think that it's the TEMs fault. There are under 10 big names out
there that have the whole telco equipment market under control. I think
that also SER saw some pressure from those guys as you are stepping a
little into their playground. Well, the Open IMS Core is 2 months old
only and we have already some threats. Those guys really want to keep
their market shares and want to keep the equipment market as a
non-commodity one. But once their methods converge towards IP, their
business would have to do the same.

And I happen to know of 3 major operators which are directly investing
already into open source and a lot more which are sponsoring R&D in open
source. More will follow for sure.
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-Dragos