__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Monday 05 February 2007 17:43 \__
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> Ramon F Herrera <ramon@xxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> On Feb 5, 9:35 am, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> AsteriskNow Rocks Open Source Telecom World
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | Spencer, founder, chairman and CTO of Asterisk provider Digium,
>>> | Huntsville, Ala., is a onetime Linux service provider who has
>>> | taken to YouTube to promote AsteriskNow, a new GUI-powered
>>> | version of the popular open-source PBX aimed at attracting a
>>> | new wave of solution providers. In the 4-minute, 13-second
>>> | clip, Spencer takes viewers through the quick and easy
>>> | AsteriskNow install. That's no small matter. What the new
>>> | single-disk GUI install does is dramatically lower the cost
>>> | of entry for solution providers looking to get into the
>>> | open-source telecom game.
>>> |
>>> | [...]
>>> |
>>> | That power has already attracted considerable attention in the telecom
>>> | world. Sam Houston State University, an early adopter, has transitioned
>>> | from Cisco CallManager IP PBXes and a Nortel Meridian PBX to Asterisk
>>> | at a huge cost savings. Solution providers say Asterisk is reshaping
>>> | the competitive landscape, providing double-digit services margins for
>>> | them and bigger bang for the buck for clients.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://www.crn.com/sections/channelbusiness/channelbusiness.jhtml?art...
>>
>> This is a great opportunity for those Linux advocates out there. All
>> you need is a *ux server (duplicated for reliability) a bunch of SIP
>> phones and you can replace an Avaya or Nortel PBX's functionality at
>> 10% of the cost.
>>
>> One of the coolest things is when the M$ dweebs show up at the
>> Asterisk newsgroups whining:
>>
>> "Does Asterisk run on Windows?"
>>
>> and they receive a resounding:
>>
>> "NO, IT DOESN'T!!!"
>>
>> About a year ago, I had trouble installing Asterisk in my Suse server.
>> When I complained about it in the Asterisk conference in L.A., the
>> speaker pointed to the guys that do QA and they sheepishly said that
>> they only tested things on RedHat Linux.
>>
>> Long story short, I offered to provide the autoconf code which will
>> make Asterisk run on every conceivable flavor of Unix-like OS, but not
>> on Windows.
>>
>> The recently released Asterisk 1.4 contains the autoconf that I
>> donated (through a Rent-A-Coder programmer that I hired from Sofia,
>> Bulgaria).
>>
>
>
> I suppose that there's nothing to stop someone porting the autoconf
> scripts to cygwin, assuming that the project is still live. Of course,
> if you're going to do that, you might as well just use real Linux rather
> than a poorer emulation of its capabilities on Windows.
Win32/cygwin: poor man's GNU/Linux.
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