Does anyone have any experience or opinions on VoIP PBX systems, and
"ObjectWorld UC Server Standard Edition" in specific? Are any similar
FOSS solutions available?
This will all run on an HP ProLiant ML110 server, to be provided by the
vendor.
There are other services bundled in the package, including the VoIP
service itself.
This is to be a VoIP-based system, which will include VoIP phones, SIP
Gateway, PoE switch, and UPS. I assume all of that is OS/application
agnostic (as provided by the quoting vendor).
The basic bundled software in the complete package quoted by one vendor is:
o OpenSever UC Std. Edition (10 seats)
o MS Small Business Server (Std R2, 5 seats)
o Trend Micro CSM Suite (6 seats)
The existing office currently has 4 XP Home workstations, which will
need to be upgraded to XP Pro (if available) in order to attach to the
MS Domain Server, and one Mac running OS X (can OS X now write NTFS?).
He also has an Infrant (now Netgear) X6 X-RAID file server (appliance
running Debian on embedded hardware) with an identical X6 used for
backing up the file server.
There are also a couple of other XP systems and one Mac as frontends to
specialized hardware, although these probably integrated into the above
phone network.
I'd like to steer him towards a more cost-effective FOSS solution if one
exists. Obviously, the hardware costs are going to be about the same
regardless of the software chosen. He has no IT staff (other than me
once in a while for the usual issues), and I don't know what kind of
admin is required by the MS server. And there is no included
out-of-warranty service contract with the quoted package (which appears
to be lease-to-own).
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Best Regards,
~DJA.
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