As someone new to *, with limited Linux experience, trying to implement in a corporate office, I'll throw in my two cents...
I can pretty much manage the administration of the system via good old conf editing. I've spent time with [EMAIL PROTECTED] and AMP and like AMP, but I wanted to get my hands dirty and understand exactly what the heck is going on in the dialplan, etc. Having said that, my implementation is going much, much slower than if I used AMP, but I'm learning so much along the way! :) But, to follow on Lee's point - * needs a simple interface for the user to access all the features of the system they should be able to change. And the receptionist needs an app to control incoming calls, transfer, etc. >From my perspective, the user interface is more critical - if the * community wants to see Asterisk adopted in the corporate PBX market. Having a great interface for the administrator to configure the system is just not as important. In my case, managing a couple hundred users - once the system is in and working, the system changes are pretty trivial to manage. I don't need a brilliant interface to do that. (But if there was one, I would use it!)
