I kind of have a link to ITWorld, but I thought it was an interesting read... I've copied the first few paragraphs below... click link for full article.
Asterisk lacks support for enterprises By: Kathleen Lau ComputerWorld Canada (01 Nov 2007) A recent survey of developers of the Asterisk platform, an open source telephony technology, revealed a surprising number of companies are choosing to develop their own Private Branch eXchange (PBX) systems. Those companies preferred to rely on in-house IT resources than work through integrators, or purchase off-the-shelf products from established manufacturers. Conducted by media-processing hardware and software vendor PIKA Technologies Inc., the survey's results were based on 322 Asterisk developers globally. As many as 30 per cent of respondents were building in-house PBX systems. This surprises Terry Atwood, PIKA's vice-president of sales, marketing and customer care, given the amount of IT and telephony knowledge typically required to deploy and support open source platforms. "There's a lot of work being done to make it easier, but it's still not an easy thing to do," Atwood said. Despite the complexity of building and supporting an internal open source telephony system, he said, some users like open source platforms because they are free. "Companies like Nortel, Avaya and Panasonic have fairly substantial markups on their products." Besides being free, "for the technology geek, [Asterisk is] open and easy to modify". Click link for full article... http://www.itworldcanada.com/Pages/Docbase/ViewArticle.aspx?id=idgml-41a2b29a-c3a6-4629&Portal=d10e0410-71d5-4137-9405-6c9adc115df8&sub=1515464 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
