On Feb 5, 9:35 am, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> AsteriskNow Rocks Open Source Telecom World
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> | 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.
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> 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).
-Ramon
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