Our more modest initial goal is to provide hot-swap and telecom circuit switching software for telecommunications equipment built using the CompactPCI Computer Telephony Specification. This site contains source code for the software infrastructure that supports both hot-swap and telecom circuit switching in a CompactPCI system. This software already works today, under several operating systems, on commercial products from NMS Communications and it is currently being extended and ported to other vendors' products and systems. Open source means software source code is publicly available. When programmers on the Internet can read, redistribute, and modify the source for a piece of software, it evolves .
People improve it, people adapt it, people fix bugs.
And this can happen at a speed that, if one is used to the slow pace of conventional software development, seems astonishing . We in the open-source community have learned that this rapid evolutionary process produces better software than the traditional closed model, in which only a very few programmers can see source and everybody else must blindly use an opaque block of bits. Open Source for Open Telecom has working code for Windows NT, Solaris, and SCO Unixware. We also have beta code for Linux and expect people to be porting this code base to a variety of other operating systems. Open Telecom is an outgrowth of the computer telephony revolution.