VMukti - Unified Communications Social Community

Please find a basic comparison of VMukti with few of the other industry players. The comparison is without warranty and is derived based on information available in pulic domain.:) {rokzoom album=|features|}/images/vmukti-comparison.jpg{/rokzoom}

VMukti is a sheer instance of superior product innovation, being an ‘economical, high-quality & modular unified communications server, converging the web, P2P and telecom’ which is a market-first.

The product sells in three packets – Open Source, Professional and Enterprise; Enterprise flavor offers delivery options namely S-a-a-S (online / hosted), On-site & Appliance through direct and OEM partnerships. Pricing options include per user per month, advertisement revenue share, per unit, per minute, and license + annual support models.

VMukti is a much awaited market-first unified communication server platform that combines the power of Web, P2P and Telecom which in turn enables web, phone, mobile or IP phone users to collaborate. The fact that it receives more than 2 commercial queries, 200 server downloads, and 2 partnership queries daily with 55,000 platform downloads and 45 investor queries till date at zero marketing expense demonstrates its popularity in today’s marketplace.

The modular, customizable platform and the open source feature are USPs of this high-quality yet low-cost audio-video communications tool. It is supported by IIM Ahmedabad (http://www.ciieindia.org/) and Georgia Entrepreneurs Society (http://www.gesnow.com/) and features among ‘India’s First in Top 10 @ SourceForge’ as well as ‘Most active VOIP Product’ on SourceForge & CodePlex.

Here are some of VMukti’s other achievements:

 VMukti’s parent Adiance features in RedHerring Asia 100 finalist list

http://go2indiaweb20.com/2007/08/14/41-finalists-from-india-in-red-herring-100-asia-2007/

 VMukti profiled as one of the Top 25 Codeplex Products

http://www.eweek.com/slideshow_viewer/0,1205,l=&s=25947&a=213883&po=1,00.asp?p=y

 VMukti featured as one of the Community Choice Award Finalists for 2007

http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/070709/0275543.html

 VMukti profiled as one of the Top 10 Hottest Open Source Apps by ITWire

http://www.itwire.com/content/view/13030/53/1/5/

 VMukti CEO invited to speak at Open Source Software Conference in India

http://oss-conference.in/Speakers

 VMukti in EnterpriseWeek: Adiance’s VMukti gets reported by prestigious EnterpriseWeek

http://www.enterpriseweekmag.com/issues/issue125.pdf

 VMukti on Digg: 1videoConference makes it to Digg for the first time. Gets noted as one of the top 25 projects on SourceForge

http://www.digg.com/software/Top_25_SourceForge_Projects

 VMukti compared to WebEx: DigitalJournal considers 1videoConference better than WebEx citing TechCrunch when covering CISCO-WebEx story

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/140496

 VMukti is one of the India's 100 Innovations: VMukti (formerly 1videoConference) has recently been profiled by one of the 100 Innovations of India by NASSCOM

http://www.nasscom.in/100itinnovators

 VMukti on TechCrunch: Popular technology blog site TechCrunch reviewed 1videoConference alpha version

www.techcrunch.com/tag/1videoconference/

 VMukti on SourceForge: 1videoConference is continuously ranking as Most Active project under VoIP category on SourceForge

http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/trove_list.php?form_cat=40

 VMukti Story covered by Indian Express

http://en.shunya.in/users/Shunya's+Hive/comment/list?article=2117

VMukti (formerly known as 1videoConference) from VMukti Solutions Pvt. Ltd. is an innovative, multi-point unified communications, collaboration and conferencing server platform with built-in support for access to platform features through a) personalized, customizable web-interface b) widget for 3rd party sites c) desktops d) PSTN e) mobile and f) IP phones. Its core features include audio, video, chat, file search, whiteboard, file-sharing, presentation, remote monitoring, controlling, sharing, CRM and reports, all at use very low bandwidth / CPU usage.

As on date there is a huge dearth of products that offer good quality unified communications with multipoint conferencing and social collaboration plug-ins for 3rd party websites, neither are there products that converge the power of Web, P2P and Telecom – enabling web, phone, mobile or IP phone users to collaborate. VMukti scores over USE-AS-IS systems that are non-customizable and non-scalable by providing P2P modular customizable platforms to clients. It is proud to promote the emergent open source culture. Our product also tides over the problem of High costs owing to large server / bandwidth requirements as well as low quality output of collaboration products.

I like Criticisms, but, anonymous criticisms do raise suspicion. I always get motivated by critics. It pushes me to do better. But, I request people to also have courtesy to provide their identity when writing about VMukti, otherwise we would be forced to delete the post.  

The project is on fast pace, it is one of the most active projects on the SourceForge. We have a lot of things to do. I need to get whatever short-term goals for the product I have converted into reality for the better good of the community at large. And with limitation of resources we might be unable to meet expectations fully sometimes. But, one thing I can assure you that we will stick to our commitment and dedication. We intend to build a product that helps bridge digital divide of the world.  

We are putting sleepless efforts here for a cause. I seek your support and motivation along the way...all along. 

Thanks for the excellent support so far.  

Respectfully 
Hardik

Guys 

I know many of you don't like 50mb download of .NET 3.0 runtime and there are others who want the product to run on Mac and Linux. Good news. We are building silverlight modules for the VMukti that will enable both. Hope to achieve this major breakthrough by the next release. 

Thanks 
Hardik

Looking for somebody to review the database designs for the highly ambitious next release of the product. 

Any help is appreciated. 

Thanks 
Hardik

I have launched VMukti website with keeping single goal in mind: "How I can cater to VMukti users better?" 

- I am looking for suggestions: 

1 Should I put installation doc in, or its location is easily known? If yes, where? 

2 Should I create FAQ section? Where? 

3 How does Wiki seem? Usable? 

Your feedback is very valuable. 

Thanks 
Hardik