[asterisk-biz] Switchvox Free Edition

[Tim Booth]

I think most are referring to "free" GUI's, Thirdlane is not free.

Alex Epshteyn wrote:
>
> Dave,
>
> I rarely get affected by any postings but I think that today you did 
> hurt my feelings J – you may know that I happen to be the author of 
> another GUI – Thirdlane PBX Manager. I was just wondering – what makes 
> you say that Switchvox is “light years ahead of anything else”? Did 
> you have some really bad experience with a particular GUI or just 
> “anything else”?
>
> Absolutely nothing against Switchvox, I am just curious what makes you 
> feel so strongly (negative about anything else)? And only one 
> complaint you have about the software? I have many complaints about 
> our own software after 3 years of constant improvement and so do our 
> customers, plus there is a long list of feature requests.
>
> Have you tried Thirdlane, or PBXware (Senad, I hope you don’t mind me 
> speaking on your behalf – I think highly of PBXware even though you 
> are a competition), or any other GUIs recently?
>
> Well, since Dean is going to do the burning and the testing we should 
> probably let Dean decide what he likes. That said – gentlemen prefer 
> blondes J
>
> Best regards,
>
> Alex
>
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> [mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com] *On Behalf Of *dave cantera
> *Sent:* Thursday, November 01, 2007 9:03 AM
> *To:* Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
> *Cc:* Cantera, David (IBS); stotaro at totarotechnologies.com
> *Subject:* Re: [asterisk-biz] Switchvox Free Edition
>
> I haven't seen the free edition but I have used switchvox for about 
> three years now... the equipment works flawlessly, quick to install, 
> is easy to use, and easy to train on...
>
> yes, their gui is light years ahead of anything else and that is why 
> digium was smart enough to pick them up. the guys and gals at 
> switchvox are top notch designers. there is only one complaint that I 
> have and if there is only one complaint, you know the product is good. 
> the complaint was that in installations of over 500+ extensions or 
> intricate IVRs, it was tedious to page through or scroll the web 
> interface. I talked to tristen at VON Boston and they are reworking 
> that mechanism.
>
> in the past, they integrated the asterisk product and probably worked 
> closely with digium programmers to get * bug fixes they they found 
> identified. now that workload is offloaded to digium and they can 
> concentrate more on the gui.
> the latest release, that I haven't seen until this week at VON, has 
> plugins so you can do cool things like 'google' a caller id, pop up a 
> google map of where the call came from, launch sales force or sugarCRM 
> right in their gui... you can even design your own plugins...
>
> switchvox was already ahead of the competitors in this marketplace, 
> this new release leapfrogs them 100 fold. switchvox has made a smart 
> move by adding the plugins digium saw the benefit of picking them up, 
> and it is a VERY wise choice to add this into your product mix.
> daveC
>
>
>
> Steve Totaro wrote:
>
> Antonio Gallo wrote:
>   
>> Tim Booth ha scritto:
>>   
>>     
>>> It looks like its limited to 15 extensions and no access to most of the 
>>> call center things and no call recording. Another free distro stealing 
>>> some of the trixboxers is CentPBX.
>>>     
>>>       
>> SwitchVox has a really nice GUI, not to mention i stoled their website 
>> them for my own personal website some years ago (now rewroted).
>>  
>> I got some decent idea for reimplementing the GUI for the PBX of my 
>> company, we're going to release a free version too in january.
>>  
>> so basically SwitchVox pw0n TrixBox badly
>>  
>> AgX
>>  
>>   
>>     
> That should read "Digium/Adtran" p0wned "Trixbox". 
>  
> Made for some fun undertones at Astricon. 
>  
> I wish I had snapped a picture of Mark Spencer standing in front of the 
> larger than life Trixbox convention setup with a BIG grin on his face 
> the evening before the announcement of the Switchvox acquisition.  I 
> wondered why the sh*t eating grin.....  Too funny.
>  
> Thanks,
> Steve
>  
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