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- Ian On 11/1/07, Matthew M. Gamble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > >> > >> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> 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] > >
