{"id":6430,"date":"2008-02-07T18:28:52","date_gmt":"2008-02-07T18:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/open-source-in-south-america.html"},"modified":"2008-02-07T18:28:52","modified_gmt":"2008-02-07T18:28:52","slug":"open-source-in-south-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/open-source-in-south-america.html","title":{"rendered":"Open Source in South America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/images.tmcnet.com\/it-magazine\/october-2006\/100voices-picts\/David-Mandelstam-Sangoma.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>I was pretty blown away at just how much South American traffic there was at the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itexpo.com\">ITEXPO<\/a> a few weeks back. Much of this traffic was in the booths of companies who focus on the open source space. Digium and Fonality were just a few of the companies who saw this traffic in their booths.<\/p>\n<p>I was reminded about how much open source interest there is in South America when I saw the news that Sangoma is partnering with Ft. Lauderdale based XmarteK to increase its distribution throughout Latin America.<\/p>\n<p><!--ZZZLinkBegZZZ-->Sangoma President and CEO David Mandelstam  said Sangoma &ldquo;will be supporting XmarteK with road shows in various Latin  American countries where the objective will be to build a strong customer base  that will help us to effectively serve the Latin American market.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>This just shows that open source is an attention-getter, regardless of language or culture. <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/mtstatic\/FCKeditor\/emoticons\/icon_smile.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/opensourcepbx.tmcnet.com\/topics\/applications\/articles\/20209-open-source-telephony-solutions-provider-sangoma-teams-with.htm\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See also:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/open-source\/sangoma-interview.html\">Sangoma Interview<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/unified-communications\/sangoma-from-open-source-to-unified-communications.html\">Sangoma: From Open Source to Unified Communications<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was pretty blown away at just how much South American traffic there was at the recent ITEXPO a few weeks back. Much of this traffic was in the booths of companies who focus on the open source space. Digium and Fonality were just a few of the companies who saw this traffic in their<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,179,180,199,198,189,118,177,191],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6430"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}