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Tim O’Reilly talks about a paradigm shift that is occurring in the way
technology (both hardware and software) is delivered.<sup>[<a id="asterisk-CHP-15-FN-4" href="#ftn.asterisk-CHP-15-FN-4">154</a>]</sup> O’Reilly identifies three trends: <span class="emphasis"><em>the
commoditization of software</em></span>, <span class="emphasis"><em>network-enabled
collaboration</em></span>, and <span class="emphasis"><em>software customizability (software
as a service)</em></span>. These three concepts provide evidence to suggest
that open source telephony is an idea whose time has come.</p><div class="footnotes"><br /><hr width="100" align="left" /><div class="footnote"><p><sup>[<a id="ftn.asterisk-CHP-15-FN-4" href="#asterisk-CHP-15-FN-4">154</a>] </sup>Much of the following section is merely our interpretation of
O’Reilly’s article. To get the full gist of these ideas, the full read
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