>The CTO is highly unlikely to know or care about the low level technology >decisions. It isn't something that bubbles up to his level or pay >grade.
Unless it's presented to him as a means of doing something faster, better, more cheaply, better interop etc. Isn't that the value proposition in Asterisk? Maybe not to the CTO, but the CTO's underling, the second level manager. Presumably, this guy would have the CTO's ear. I read an article about CN Rail in Canada which is kind of like Amtrack in the US. They had Linux trickle in as replacements for DNS servers running Solaris, I think. Something they paid big bucks for. It was goofy, because BIND is BIND, right? The biggest resistance was convincing the suits that this Linux thing wasn't a scam and offered the same featureset and reliability that Solaris did. Eventually what happened is that the suits looked around and found out that BIND-Linux was the preferred means of DNS for the Net, and all of a sudden it was legitimized for them. They started out with DNS, and eventually they migrated wholesale to Linux. I see the same thing in the Asterisk context. Mark builds a killer platform. The geeks go into convulsions of ectasy. They evangelize. The userbase builds. Slashdot lusers pester you with questions. You answer, they figure out sip.conf, and then they evangelize. More lusers come along and pester. You answer, with the patience of Job, then they evengelize. Eventually, a mainstream effect comes into play, and the platform starts to get mainstream acceptance. Hopefully, CTO of XYZ sees an article in the Wall Street Journal (more legitimate than Wired? Depends.) about this thing, and calls up his batman and says "Find out about this thing" and then at that point Mark can finally afford his hot tub. (whatever happened to that anyway?) Sorry about the math. Duh. _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
