I would summarise the article as follows:-
"Asterisk is fairly easy to implement. Our ad revenues will be affected
because our customers (that's people who pay for ads in our mag, not pay
to read it) will lose business. Let's throw out some fud about how
complex and incomplete Asterisk is to make our advertisers more
comfortable. "
regards,
Drew
Chuck Mariotti wrote:
I kind of have a link to ITWorld, but I thought it was an interesting read...
I've copied the first few paragraphs below... click link for full article.
Asterisk lacks support for enterprises
By: Kathleen Lau
ComputerWorld Canada (01 Nov 2007)
A recent survey of developers of the Asterisk platform, an open source
telephony technology, revealed a surprising number of companies are choosing to
develop their own Private Branch eXchange (PBX) systems. Those companies
preferred to rely on in-house IT resources than work through integrators, or
purchase off-the-shelf products from established manufacturers.
Conducted by media-processing hardware and software vendor PIKA Technologies
Inc., the survey's results were based on 322 Asterisk developers globally.
As many as 30 per cent of respondents were building in-house PBX systems. This
surprises Terry Atwood, PIKA's vice-president of sales, marketing and customer
care, given the amount of IT and telephony knowledge typically required to
deploy and support open source platforms.
"There's a lot of work being done to make it easier, but it's still not an easy
thing to do," Atwood said.
Despite the complexity of building and supporting an internal open source telephony
system, he said, some users like open source platforms because they are free.
"Companies like Nortel, Avaya and Panasonic have fairly substantial markups on their
products."
Besides being free, "for the technology geek, [Asterisk is] open and easy to
modify".
Click link for full article...
http://www.itworldcanada.com/Pages/Docbase/ViewArticle.aspx?id=idgml-41a2b29a-c3a6-4629&Portal=d10e0410-71d5-4137-9405-6c9adc115df8&sub=1515464
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