Ekiga 2.0 Released

Some Anonymous Coward writes "After about one year of development the former GnomeMeeting team has released Ekiga. Ekiga is the successor of the popular GnomeMeeting. Ekiga calls itself the very "first Open Source application to support both H.323 and SIP". Ekiga is based on the h323/sip codebase, provided by the openh323 project. Also introduced with this release is ekiga.net, a platform to provide the community with free sip addresses."

Ready?

[Douglas Simmons]

Will this successor be successful in placating the higher ups in my office if I start converting XP machines to use this instead of MS's equiv?

Is this compatible with consumer VoIP?

[fak3r]

Will this be compatible with consumer VoIP? In otherwords, I'm considering signing up for Speakeasy VoIP (already have DSL with them) which would cut out our phone company ( something I'd love to do ), so would this work with that? At home I would use a normal 'phone' but on the road could I use this to make/recieve calls on my laptop? What other advantages would this provide? Back in the day I did some internet phoney thing, but it was early in dev and not very useful. With all our calls going out on TCP/IP I'd imagine this app would be helpful, but I still haven't grasped what it's all about.

Thanks.

Re:Ekiga? What the hell is an Ekiga?

[Rac3r5]

Actually, you're not the only one who is confused by Ekiga. I think its a really cool name. The problem lies with the website and its FAQ on what Ekiga is. It tells me about SIP and H.323 bla bla, but that doesn't tell me what it really is. I had to lookup wikipedia to find out that its a video conferencing tool.

Does it interoperate with...

[Anonymous Coward]

• any clients on MacOS
  
• any clients on Solaris
  
• any clients on Windows
  

If there's a yes answer to all of those, we'd likely recommend it for work.
So far we're using skype for a lot; but it's not a complete answer to our needs.

Re:skype? What the hell is a skype?

[foxtrot]

Even ignoring the fallacy in the "they're doing it, why don't we do it?" argument, there's a big difference here.

Skype comes from a business. They've got money to throw at Madison Avenue, and the advertisements will make sure we all know exactly what they do.

Where, exactly, is Ekiga's advertising money going to be coming from?

-F

Re:Depends

[pdbogen]

For what it's worth, Speakeasy tends to be a VERY nerd-friendly company. (I want to say "hacker-friendly," but people would almost certainly get the wrong idea.)

Re:Name Change

[pomo monster]

"You're only making the association because you've heard of the product before"

Yes, but once I've heard it once, it just clicks, and sticks, because it makes sense. Besides the obvious Beach Boys reference to surfing the web, a safari also implies exploration and venturing into territories unknown. These are both very good ways the name "Safari" works for a web browser.

My point isn't that the name should tell you, with no preknowledge, what the program does. It's just that the name should fit well enough so that after you've made the link once, you'll remember it later without even trying.