[Kamailio-Users] Project continuity and near future.

[Alex Balashov]

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

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