As I pointed out to David in another email, while a web-based reporting tool is desirable, as a commercial product you take a software package that is already targeted at a fairly small market and then you have to start making decisions which further limit that market.
Such as: In what language do you develop the web interface? If you choose a compiled language you either choose a single environment (Windows, Linux, MAC, etc.) or else you give yourself a lot of work to do for a product with a small potential market. A web targeted template-based language like PHP can be run on most platforms, but you begin to place some technical requirements on the customer, such as being able to install the PHP interpreter. Then there are questions of what database to use (with similar environment questions) and whether or not you build and distribute your own COM port monitoring software. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "David CM Weber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 6:26 PM Subject: Re: KX-T: Re: SMDR Poll > What would even be nicer is if such a program ran under linux. You could use > old "free" 486/P1 machines, and even have a web interface. > > Bob > > ---------- Original Message ----------- > From: "CP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "David CM Weber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 17:49:48 -0500 > Subject: KX-T: Re: SMDR Poll > > > Such a program would be great if it was real cheap. There are established > > programs that do it already. The least expensive probably being > > PanaLog, runs about $400-$500. There are many other "call > > accounting" programs out there too. They usually cost much more > > ($1000 to $4000) partly because they also figure costs for each > > call and can do re-billing such as for company departments, etc. A > > lot of people would like simple call logging/ sorting/ searching/ > > charts, etc but don't want to spend too much. > > > > Charles > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "David CM Weber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 3:47 PM > > Subject: KX-T: SMDR Poll > > > > I have been thinking about my own company's needs as far as keeping > > track of SMDR data. I'm a programmer by trade, and I ended up > > tossing around some ideas and came up with the following: > > > > Computer runs a service which monitors for SMDR data (and will > > automagically give up the COM port should programator get spawned > > [details need to be worked out]) > > > > Computer will parse the SMDR data, and put the data into a nice > > database. > > > > There will be another application/front end to work with the > > database to allow for searching of data, make graphs, charts, etc.. > > > > Is this something that anyone would be interested in? I figure w/ > > the information in a database, it would be easy to search through > > and be less cumbersome than text files or *gasp* hardcopy printouts. > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > KX-T Mailing list --- http://kxthelp.com/ > > Subscription changes: http://kxthelp.com/mailman/listinfo/kxt > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > KX-T Mailing list --- http://kxthelp.com/ > > Subscription changes: http://kxthelp.com/mailman/listinfo/kxt > ------- End of Original Message ------- > > > _________________________________________________________________ > KX-T Mailing list --- http://kxthelp.com/ > Subscription changes: http://kxthelp.com/mailman/listinfo/kxt _________________________________________________________________ KX-T Mailing list --- http://kxthelp.com/ Subscription changes: http://kxthelp.com/mailman/listinfo/kxt
