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

[Greger V. Teigre]

Who was SIP made for in the first place? Some people using applications 
built on top of it. For the sake of those people (who are now about to 
become many more), I really do hope that Open IMS Core succeeds.
g-)

Dragos Vingarzan wrote:
> 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.
>>
>>     
> <offtopic>
> 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.
> </offtopic>
>
>
> -Dragos
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