Yep, amp and [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the best thing to happen to Asterisk since Jolt cola.
Don't be fooled by the names this delivers what you need and you never have to touch a line editor. Dean > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:asterisk-biz- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Colin Anderson > Sent: Tuesday, 27 September 2005 1:55 PM > To: 'Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion' > Subject: RE: [Asterisk-biz] Looking for a configuration software > > >Very simple: vi extensions.conf > > >What more do you need? > > > With respect, that's not practical if the expectation is for the Asterisk > platform is to hit critical mass. While other PBX vendors take the "It's > my > way, or the highway" approach to configuration, it's not enough for > Asterisk > to simply ape that model simply because the credibility of the platform > with > CxO's has not been established on the same level as a Cisco or a Nortel or > what have you. Asterisk has to do it better, cheaper, and, yes, *more > intuitively* than everyone else if it wants to compete. > > I read an article recently in the Globe & Mail about VoIP adoption and the > last part was a few quotes from Mark S about Asterisk and a quote from a > Gartner talking head that basically dismissed the Asterisk movement; he > said > he was "highly skeptical" that any open source platform would be able to > compete with the big players (I'm paraphrasing) and really, he probably > said > it because the Asterisk platform had no credibility with him. Problem is, > people listen to Gartner Group reports. The unfortunate reality of > business > is that pretty screenshots sell software, vi does not. > > You know, and I know, and all of the other guys on the lists know, that vi > kicks ass and you can do magic with it. That being said, we are .0001% of > the past, present, and future potential users of Asterisk and insisting > that > the user use vi to edit .conf files can only hurt platform adoption. The > days of white coated priests muttering incantations over a screen littered > with mystic heiroglyphics are over, and business adopters *want* products > that are easy to administrate. > > There is always the argument that this is a professional platform and it > requires a professional to administrate, to which I say: "Why?" Why can't > the complexity of the platform be abstracted to the point where the > secretary can at least add an extension or reroute a DID? Something like > that *adds* to the value of the platform. This is why I applaud the > efforts > of companies like Coalescent who want to bring Asterisk to the masses. > > Some on -biz may see these type of efforts as grass cutting, but I > disagree. > It may take a noob to add an extension or a DID through AMP, but it *does* > and *always will* take a professional to make Asterisk work in a > more-than-casual context, and for that, yes, vi is the answer (or more to > the point: vi extensions_custom.conf), so IMO there's always a piece of > the > pie avaliable to integrators and consultants. A working Asterisk install > is > the sum of many correctly put together pieces, and an easy admin GUI is > just > one aspect. > > Again, with respect. > > >>M. MAINGAULT wrote: > > >> I'll be very interested in a software who can generate configurations > >> files for asterisk : i would like pay once for the software, but not > >> paid for each configurations (except if the price is low...) > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Biz mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Biz mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
