[asterisk-biz] Open Proposal

[Jason Becker]

Robert Roach wrote:
> Hi C F,
> 
> If you care to elaborate, I would be happy to know what you think the 
> major problems would be in getting something like this off the ground.  
> I can think of a few on my own, but any insights you can share can only 
> help to further refine what needs to be done to get us from here to 
> there, so to speak.

In my mind it boils down to lack of agreement *within the Asterisk 
community* upon a standardized implementation of Asterisk as an SMB IP 
PBX. Digium has ABE - but ABE is an implementation with standardized 
*binaries* - not a base level of standardized *functionality*. We are 
the stewards of AMP - which has been downloaded in one form or another 
(i.e. Asterisk at Home) over 400,000 times. In most circles that would 
likely signal that's the implementation to make a bet on, but the 
toolkit nature of Asterisk and human nature probably preclude consensus 
on the matter. I'm not proselytizing... just sharing insights.

Regards,
-- 
Jason Becker
Director & CEO
Coalescent Systems Inc.
Enabling Open Source Telephony
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