On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 07:50 -0400, Matt wrote: > We still run 1.2.6 on some of our production systems because, so far, > it has been the only stable release of Asterisk for us. Other > versions core dump for no reason and do all kinds of other funky > things. > > On 5/29/07, Jaswinder Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What you say might be true for small business or home pbx > systems . > But if you have a production server handling sip/iax > trunks over > internet then you need to upgrade to avoid security related > bugs and > exploits that are released .
Well, once you've developed the "perfect" asterisk app, I guess you could just stick with it forever and never change anything. Or, you invest some time==money into the process, and keep a separate machine to do testing with, file bugs, and push them thru so someday, you get an even better "perfect" asterisk app. A "once a day" crash could never, ever get fixed without users collecting a backtrace, filing a bug, and helping out with testing! If asterisk is really involved in your cash flow, I don't see how you can justify grabbing one version and staying with it forever. Such a business model is doomed to extinction. All apps, for that matter, all living and even artificial things follow a predictable sequence that ends in death. Your perfect server will last maybe 5 or so years max, and then the hardware will fail or obsolesce, and unless you actively participate in keeping the software up to date, you will have an expensive, time-consuming, perhaps fatal ordeal getting your app up and running on newer hardware/software again. A "sustaining" model has you actively participate in the evolution of the software you find "critical". Right? In a closed source model, you'd pay yearly maintenance, and get a voice in the direction the software evolved. In an open-source model, the yearly maintenance cost is your own time in filing bugs, and testing, submitting patches, etc. One way or the other, it costs you something. Or, like dinosaurs, stick with one version and follow that evolutionary branch to its end. murf -- Steve Murphy Software Developer Digium
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