Asterisk, open source telephony, and the Clash

My InfoWorld column this week ("Open source calling") focuses on Asterisk, the open source PBX solution that we reviewed in InfoWorld earlier this year (very positively). Thank goodness IT and telco folks now have an open source solution that can do battle with the big boys -- we've all been suffering from big vendor lock-in for a long time now when it comes to phone systems.

By the way, the headline and "dek" (what we call the subheadline in the biz) is an incredibly strained reference to the Clash's London Calling:

Headline: Open source calling
Dek: The clash between open source and proprietary telephony solutions has arrived

That's just one small attempt to redeem myself for referencing Motley Crue's "Too Fast for Love" in a column a while back.