Don't forget that looking at proprietary source code can put you in a position where your contributions to open source might be challenged. They might falsely accuse you of "borrowing" from the proprietary code you saw. It can get complicated. Ask me to work on proprietary software for your senseless widget manufacturing plant and I will give you a great deal. Ask me to work on proprietary software for something I am really interested in like voip and I will ask you to compensate me for every day that the non-disclosure and do-not-compete clauses are in effect. I guess I'm poor but free.
I have thought about writing a free * webmin module. It would definitely have to use the * remote management features. Reason for that is maybe I don't want webmin(and many other things) running on a busy * server. You can always have webmin available on the server for maintainance needs but not started at boot time. The rest of the time you use webmin and the * module on another machine to manage various * servers. You can use stunnel to encrypt management traffic to remote servers. Take a really good look at Jamie Cameron's webmin and you will see that it was designed with this type of need in mind. You could use a single webmin server to manage a building with dozens of networked servers. He already put lots of tools in the toolbox for the module developer.
Anyway, I would agree with Henry for my own situation. But maybe you would quickly get your $300 worth because you want to have a cross-trained pbx management team. Or maybe you can get a good price on this and bundle it with systems you sell. The screen shots on the website didn't tell me enough to make me salivate over it.
-- Paul
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Henry Devito wrote:
I've attempted to contact thirdlane to get pricing on their GUI and can't seem to get anyone to reply.
www.thirdlane.com <http://www.thirdlane.com> has already written a close dsource webmin module. I have no idea how much it costs or how well it works.
My personal feeling is that if it's closed source, the support better be excellent. And if I can't get a reply to a sales question.. What's going to happen when I have a problem?
Ek!
-Brett
I could not agree more. Last time a new the gui was $300 US. I emailed a sales person about 2 months ago and that was his response. I never purchased it for the simple reason that I didn't need it. Once you learn the command line it seems just as easy to edit config files that way.
Have a good day Henry
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