Great points. And the moral of the story is, any sucessful deploy will have a *large* element of the integrator winnowing out exactly what it is that a user expects, then delivering it.
This is where Asterisk shines, IMO. If it doesn't exist, make it. If it existed before, emulate it. If it is noticeable by it's absence, fake it. I can't think of a platform that does this even as remotely good as Asterisk. </cheerleader> -----Original Message----- From: Wilson Pickett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 9:26 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] FXS or VOIP On 1/12/06, Colin Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... On my home setup the wife avoids using the SNOM's > because it looks uber-intimidating and things like call transfer, park etc > blows her mind, she doesn't get it. So I dusted off some Vista 350's I had... (checking thread subject, looking both ways befiore crossing) Indeed the women at our office want to know when the phones will be available in something other than what Henry Ford called "several colors, all of them black". The day I got a couple of cheap PA1688 white phones, they loved them ;) But I think they really want blue or something like that. You and I (again generic you) think the Ciscos and Polycoms are neat-looking. More sensitive, yet very intelligent and competent creatures think they look like relics from the militaro-industrial society. In the best of all possible worlds, most of the complex features would be removable. Fortunately on the Polycoms, several are. A final point, as younger people come into the workplace, their experience will be *cellular*, not pbx. All this "dial *89" will be laughable. The company that sees this first will sweep the others into a niche market in a few years... unless we're not using phones at all. _______________________________________________ --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 _______________________________________________ --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
