Open-source collaboration meets VoIP

Asterisk and Zimbra, the popular open-source programs for IP telephony and calendaring/collaboration, respectively, are partnering to make new software together. The main advantage will be click-to-call (or conference) integration from directly inside Zimbra software. This sort of feature will be designed with what Asterisk called zimlets--code snippets based on open standards.

For more on the partnership:
- read this internetnews.com article