To quote the great Homer Simpson:
*Homer: *Aw, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent.
Forty percent of all people know that.
Dave Donovan wrote:
Chuck,
None of this is directed at you by the way. Thanks for posting the link.
There are 3 kinds of lies: lies, damn lies and statistics.
To infer that because 30% of developers are working on modifying
Asterisk for a particular company means that Asterisk is not well
suited to the enterprise seems like a very bad syllogism. I guess
based on the number of SAP developers out there that it's only
suitable for mom and pop operations. Huh?
Also, this stat doesn't give you any indication of how many companies
are choosing stock asterisk vs custom code. It's not a sample of
companies at all, it's a sample of developers. To draw any
conclusions about the behavior of companies is completely invalid.
People running off the shelf asterisk aren't represented in the study
at all, by definition, they don't have any programmers or else it
wouldn't be off the shelf.
I'll stop there. In short: terrible abuse of statistics.
DD
On 11/1/07, Chuck Mariotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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
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