Open Source Collaboration Meets VoIP

This could be interesting for integrated media handling of voice mail. I use both Zimbra and Asterisk at work. From internetnews.com: Open Source Collaboration Meets VoIP.

A new partnership between Zimbra and Asterisk is helping to bridge the gap between text- and voice-based collaboration.

Zimbra is an open source suite that blends AJAX and Web Services together for calendar, contact and e-mail collaboration.

Asterisk is an open source IP-PBX originally begun by open source wunderkind Mark Spencer.

Thanks to a new collaboration between the two, Zimbra users together with Asterisk now have voice capability from within their Zimbra-based calendars, e-mails and contacts. Zimbra users can click-to-call individual numbers, initiate conference calls by selecting groups of contacts or a meeting entry on a calendar and can also directly access voicemail.