I love the Homer quote... ...I was chuckling a little when I read the article. Keep in mind that unfortunately many "article writers" spit stuff out sometimes intentionally off the mark, to draw readership (which is why I copy/pasted part of it, rather than just a link to gain readership). Of course, this "Nemertes" is probably loosing some market share because of Asterisk... just interesting.
I do think the signal to take away from it is that, it is heading for the Enterprise, there are some obstacles that need to be passed still... and that there are attempts to leverage the platform for commercial benefit. And this is likely to happen more over the next 5 years. Should interesting to see how many "products" come of it over the next 5 years. Unfortunately, to make it into the enterprise, there are two ways, via sales department making a sale, or the "geek" working in the datacenter going it... both will happen in time. Regards, Chuck -----Original Message----- From: Dave Donovan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: November-01-07 11:09 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [on-asterisk] Interesting Read: Asterisk lacks support for enterprises 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 > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
