Aidan Van Dyk wrote:
Browsing through the new website...
* Q - Does Asterisk Business Edition contain any additional features, fixes,
or enhancements not found in the open source versions of Asterisk?
* A - Digium remains committed to the open source model, and has based
Asterisk Business Edition entirely on the open source tree.
However, no single release of the Open Source version corresponds
to Asterisk Business Edition, since its features and bug fixes
have been carefully chosen to increase reliability and decrease
risk.
Hmm, so Asterisk Business edition is:
1) Simply CVS head (as of some point in time) with certain features or
bug fixes "backed out"
2) In addition to CVS head, some important features and bug fixes.
In either case, since they are committed to the open source model, are
they willing to tell us what features/bug fixes in CVS are considered an
increased liability and risk, or what important features and bug fixes
they've applied on top of CVS? This could help those of us trying to
build stable, robust, asterisk-based solutions promote asterisk as a
stable, robust, low-risk platform.
Seems to be a bit of double-talk going on here...
a.
Just coming back from ISPCon, I can tell you that the hardest questions
to answer were those related to ABE:
Random Questioner: So what is this Asterisk Business Edition?
My Answer: ABE is a stable, supported version of Asterisk for use in
commercial environments.
DOH! By saying that ABE is stable, you are automatically implying that
the normal Asterisk tree is in fact, unstable. I know Asterisk is
stable (even HEAD is most of the time), and we all know that Asterisk is
stable, but CTO from some-random-company does not know that. Time for
another try:
Q: So what is this Asterisk Business Edition?
A: ABE is an official, supported version of Asterisk provided with
documentation in a more traditional format (i.e. boxed).
It sounds better, but I don't know how accurate it is. Either way, that
was the question that I liked the least...
--
Kristian Kielhofner
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