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Adam Williams |
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[Bayonne-desktop] Re: [Evolution-hackers] Re: [Bayonne-devel]Re: GNOME "Telephony Application Programming Services" Proposed |
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Mon, 09 Feb 2004 05:53:20 -0500 |
Why are these messages stamped as year 2003?
> GNU Bayonne already does some of these same things as well and has done so
> for
> a number of years now in varied commercial, carrier class, and governmental
> settings. It is also an integral part of the GNU system, and does some
> things that are distinctly different from Asterisk. However, TAPS has
> nothing to do directly with being such a system. TAPS is also not a
> softphone client. Rather, TAPS is intended purely to standardize how we
> integrate such things like GNU Bayonne, Astreisk, or other common office
> telephony servers and systems, with common desktop applications (such as
> address books, contact management systems, etc). In that sense it services
> some of the same role as JTAPI, although in a manner far more directly usable
> in GNOME (through a C callable library), and both far simpler and more
> consistent with free software development than JTAPI (or fully proprietary
> systems such as Microsoft TAPI) currently do this.
> > > > GNOME TAPS will offer a C callable library to easily integrate
> > > > telephony functions into existing GNOME applications. It will use a
> > > > common TCP based backend protocol to communicate directly with office
> > > > telephone equipment and services, and ideally for use with free
> > > > software based telephone systems such as GNU Bayonne. It will include
> > > > an applet to pop-up and support handling of incoming calls. It will
> > > > include a gnome control-center plugin for setting of telephony options.
This would be fabulous. Is there any chance this will support
commerical PBX's (for CTIish applications) anytime in the forseeable
future. I have 13 Nortel BCM VOIP phonesystems and have been looking
for a way to integrate these with OpenGroupware in a
click-contact-to-call fashion - as can be done from a Win32 system.
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