On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 13:58 +0400, Jean-Michel Hiver wrote: > Douglas Garstang a écrit : > Actually, I've found Asterisk to be a great experience. Not so much > because of the product itself (which is already great), but because of > the level of accessibility and the community around it. > > Asterisk drastically lowers barriers of entry in the field of commercial > telephony systems. Besides, the wiki, the mailing list and the IRC > channels make it relatively easy to get started with the system. This > "no-pointy-clicky no-brainer interface" actually allows you to gain more > in-depth knowledge about telephony and VoIP. >
I can second that. The (possible) impact of * on the pbx market could be enormous. I worked for nearly two decades for the largest telco manufacturer, and have seen some of the limitations a large company implies. With pbx's, on small systems had just basic predefined dial-plans with limmited features. On large systems, customers had to pay dearly for any add-on feaures. Much was possible, but as there was no paying customer, lots of things never left the design-department. Personnaly, i would dare compare it with the impact Linux has on the UNIX-community. It used to be closed, limited and high priced. Now, distro's come with truck full of tools and applications one could only dream of. On *, it seems that your imagination is the only limitation. You ARE capable of changing the behaviour yourself. (Or actually you have to define the entire behaviour ;-)) Besides OOo, i think it is the best open-source product... Perhaps it has little impact when looking for a specifc job, but you shurely can learn a lot! HW -- pgp-id: 926EBB12 pgp-fingerprint: BE97 1CBF FAC4 236C 4A73 F76E EDFC D032 926E BB12 Registered linux user: 75761 (http://counter.li.org) _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users