--- Gavin Hamill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It would seem an odd question, but I'm trying to put together a > little > presentation on 'Why Asterisk?' and need to list Pros and Cons.... > I've > got plenty of Pros (including the availability of commercial > support), > but the only Con I can think of is 'Relatively few installations > worldwide'
What's "few" there must be many thousands of installations. Reasons not to buy it, I think all revolve around the fact that Digium is a very small bussiness and could easly vanish. and while there are numerus small consulting firms that could step in few have to ability to actually write new core PBX code or device drivers and continue development. Even those few might see that someone motivated and talented failed and not want to step in. That said, if you have some technical skills you don't need support and if all else fails there are other Open Source projects that you could fall back on. So the risk is quite low. It is _very_ low if you take the time to make plans to cover yourself. In the end, you have the Asterisk code, you don't get this if you buy a comercial PBX system. The other reason not to buy is that it simply may not be a good technical "fit". Clearly Asterisk is not what you'd want if your company had 10,000 phone extensions > > Can anyone think of any others? > > Cheeres, > Gavin. > > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ===== Chris Albertson Home: 310-376-1029 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: 310-990-7550 Office: 310-336-5189 [EMAIL PROTECTED] KG6OMK __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users