On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 02:45:09AM -0400, Steve Totaro wrote: > Let me clarify this a bit with some ramblings if anyone cares to read, > if not move along. > > Yes, I was whining a bit. > > I always recommend what I think fits best for a customer. I am not in > the "Digium Foodchain" because of the first statement. I swear > allegiance to nobody except my customers, who are trusting me to ask > the right questions, feel them out, be a mind reader to a degree, and > deliver the best customized solution for them that I can.
Good. You're hired. :-) > I have purchased and installed SwitchVoxen a couple of times, more > than a year before they were acquired by Digium. I am not positive, > but I am pretty sure the pricing model was much different. Anyways, > if you google my name and SwitchVox you will see that I have always > (time and time again) said it was a great product, and it is. [ URL elided; I'll take your word for it. ] > I guess I hate to see something I have viewed as such a huge paradigm > shift and disruptive force from selling boxes to selling knowledge. I > hate to see things going back to the status quo of the old world (such > as feature pricing). Aha. Got it. And yeah, I have some sympathy for that viewpoint. But as people would tell *me*: Look! An opportunity!! > BUT, as stated, I am not forced to use SwitchVox or any commercial > product for that matter and Digium has to make money too so I was off > base on that. While SwitchVox is Asterisk, Asterisk is not Switchvox. Exactly. > I do however, think that Digium should provide some rough concurrent > call figures and I guess that is how I got off topic on this SwitchVox > tangent. There are some common feature sets, especially when looking > at PBX functionality with or without Zap or transcoding hardware that > could be published (with a disclaimer of course). There are also > common server platforms but that is more of a moving target. Sure. But can you understand the point Tilghman was making there? They quote those numbers as "cover our ass" numbers; their intention is to avoid running up their tech support expense too much. The task you're after is more properly a community task, I should think. Yo, Matt! Feel free to chime in here. :-) > Maybe if Sangoma publishes some along those lines, then Digium will > follow suit. Perhaps. > Maybe just side by side benchmarking would be sufficient to both give > an idea on scaling and also compare like hardware from different > vendors. I would probably even throw FreeSwitch into mix. Word has > it that FS can scale up much larger for setting up and tearing down > calls. I am an FS newb as of now so it is hearsay. Yeah; I liked what I saw from the inside, but some people tell me it's kinda hincky internally, as well. Course, a DMS-100 probably is, too. ;-) > I like Digium and how they are "Boldly Going Where no Man has Gone > Before" (before the politically correct version :-) You did see the final episode of "Star Trek: Enterprise", right? > It must be hard > coming up with a new business model and while they do things such as > EOLing 1.2 and putting out untested, broken 1.4 code (I could go on > but I am don't want to come across as bashing Digium). I'm used to it: I program in filePro. :-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274 Those who cast the vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything. -- (Joseph Stalin) _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
