FW: Future Prospects for Open-VXI

["Glaser, Phil" <Phil.Glaser@Dialogic.com>]

Derek,

Thanks for the clarifications. The known problem that is of greatest concern
at the moment is that, to quote the release notes, "Dialog grammars in
application and portal documents are not being properly enabled."

As for the "production-quality" question, I'm responding to the fact that
the version 1.4 release notes say that this release "should be considered
Alpha-quality." That's what lead me to believe that there may be
"beta-quality" and "production-quality" releases down the road.

Thanks for yor help!

Regards,

Phil Glaser



-----Original Message-----
From: Derek Seabury [mailto:Derek.Seabury@speechworks.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 8:37 PM
To: vxi-discuss@speechinfo.org
Subject: Re: Future Prospects for Open-VXI


"Glaser, Phil" wrote:

> First, what is the time frame for fixing the known problems in the current
> relelease.

Well, we have typically put out a point release every two or three weeks
thus
far, but do plan a reworking of the interfaces with 1.5 and some major
rewrites in 1.6 to support some of the more subtle issues.
Are there particular issues you are concerned with?


> Second, more generally, what is the time frame for moving to a
> production-quality release?

Well, there are companies with the current release in production, so I'm not
quite sure what you mean.  If you meant a supported release, SpeechWorks
will
be releasing fully supported products incorporating the VXI in the not too
distant future.


> Third, is there any possibility that the Open-VXI licensing arrangement
> could change in the future, that it would no longer be open source?

Well, you can't get things out of open source.  Even if SpeechWorks decided
to
develop a VXI that was not in Open Source the versions available today still
would be.  Given the interest and commitment there has been from groups
outside of SpeechWorks I imagine that the OpenVXI would be continued.
   That said, SpeechWorks honestly believes that interoperability is a key
part of VoiceXML's promise and that an open, extensible and modular
framework
is the best way to achieve that.

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(617)428-4444

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