A SJPhone convert

Chris Holland and I bumped into one another outside our building Monday evening and somewhere between his running back in to grab a book for me from Meng Wong and his departure, we got to talking about his recent post about configuring SJPhone for EarthLink SIP. He wore me down and I promised that I'd give it another shot.

I'd tried it a few months ago and run into some problems but figured it couldn't hurt to try again. Good thing I did. The current version and the one I'd tried before have little in common. The basics provided by Chris worked quite well out of the box and we had a short conversation on Monday evening during which he also demonstrated conferencing. SJPhone itself is comfortably minimal and seems to work quite well once you get past the step of defining a service. It is somewhat surprisingly a Carbon application. It's a new perspective for me after the welded metal interface of Xten which I'd basically given up on running.

The model for SJ Labs seems to be building a SIP stack for licensing while giving away basic clients everywhere. It's an interesting idea. I wish that it was the other way around, an OSS SIP stack with client competition, but for now, that's where things are.