> I wrote an introduction to Bayonne and IVR services for the web megazine > linuxfocus (http://www.linuxfocus.org) > > it's in english: http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/April2005/article372.shtml > > and italian: http://www.linuxfocus.org/Italiano/April2005/article372.shtml > > the goal is, of course, to promote Bayonne's use in phone services Hi Luca,
I read the english version. Excellent Article! I have been evaluating bayonne for some time and here are some reasons why I am not being over enthausistic about using bayonne in production environments: a. I hardly see any developer activity on bayonne. I have been a member of bayonne-devel list for some time now and the message traffic is almost non existant. b. I have seen that most people's queries on bayonne seem to go un-answered. c. I do not see any real community behind bayonne. I have been a member of this list for the past 3 months and the only active members seem to be yourself, David and Julien. What happened to everyone else? d. I have no clue as to how stable is bayonne's connectivity to telephone networks via E1 links using PRI, R2 & C7/SS7 when using dialogic telephony boards. e. What all features are available from the native scripting language used in bayonne. f. No real description of successful implementation of bayonne in telecom networks beyond "We are using bayonne!" or "We have successfully implemented bayonne!" g. Is there any form of commercial support available for bayonne? Is it possible that, if required, i can find people/companies who are willing to work on getting rid of bugs or to implement new features for a fee? My company deploys high density IVR systems at telcos and currently we use a proprietory platform for IVR systems. I have been trying to figure out if bayonne is even a viable alternative to our current system! Our current platform may be expensive and proprietory, but our vendor gives us excellent support. Whenever we have faced any problems, our vendors have helped us big time. I have never really felt confident about what would happen if I face problems in a production environment. I have been following the bayonne project for more than 1.5 years now, and I hardly see any activity. The bayonne home pages are also not with any recent news. The bayonne.sf.net page's latest news is from 27th Feb 2004 and on www.gnu.org/software/bayonne the latest news item is from 2003-07-06! I really think that the bayonne project has not done much to attract people who might be intrested in deploying bayonne in production environments. Luca is doing a great job here, but we probably need more people doing similar activity. Google tends to only turn up old articles on bayonne :-( Ambar Roy PS: Luca bayonne.sourceforge.org does not lead to the bayonne page. It is bayonne.sourceforge.net or bayonne.sf.net ;-) _______________________________________________ Bayonne-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bayonne-devel
