On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 15:31, Steven Critchfield wrote: > > the only Con I can think of is 'Relatively few installations > > worldwide' > > Your listed con is only a con if you have to point to others failures to > cover your own. It is lemming thinking.
Hm, it's only a con because I can't think of anything else, to be honest :) The call centre is our lifeblood at the moment, so whilst I personally am confident that Asterisk can perform the task more reliably and more adaptably than our current PBX, the fact that not many other people (that I know of) are using the software is a significant factor in the risk assessment. Our mgmt are reasonably open and forward, but with something as core to the business as the phones, I expect they will show a more conservative side. It's a pleasant boost to my case that our current proprietary PBX has been dogged with problems. > > Can anyone think of any others? > > If your company has a few decent programmers with a good knowledge of > open source software and software debugging, the few access of the > source code is the greatest PRO. Alas, we're a web shop, so the coding talent extends only to Perl/PHP. Perfect for AGI scripting, but not a lot of use if we find issues in the Asterisk core. > I think the only Con we could think up when we initially deployed was > our question of the longevity of the Digium company. Interesting - something I'd not even considered simply because new products appear all the time, and I haven't heard a bad word said about them to date. > I'd say the only other cons you could list are really in driver support > areas right now, but knowing that those are moving targets and can > potentially be fixed or avoided lowers those risks. <nod> Cheers, Gavin. _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
