<div>I think a clarificationon of my previous post is in order.</div>
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<div>I did not realize that my general comment on non availability of a commercial or open source billing software for VOIP operations on Asterisk will lead to finger pointing and unsolicited advise on what I should do.
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<div>Guys, this is not about me. I understand business dynamics, open source philosophy and not looking for a free ride. And not complaining about Asterisk.</div>
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<div>Rather my previous comment should be rightly interpreted if you consider that I am actually advocating for a commercial VOIP software native to Asterisks. This will greatly enhance usability of this great piece of software beyond its initial use as a soft PBX and end love affairs of techo-myopics that is limiting its broader market penetration and innovative usages.
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<div>Thanks,</div>
<div>Ifte</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/23/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">VOIP Paal</b> <<a href="mailto:kleiva2a@hotmail.com">kleiva2a@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">We are a small Mini VOIP provider in Europe. We only have 28 customers.<br><br>This discussion is very strange. We have "Thameem Ansari" demanding to run
<br>Billing Software on MySQL 3. I did not even know anybody is using MySQL 3<br>anymore. We are in 2005. What happend to evolution. He know want to build it<br>in Java him self. Good luck! Maybee he learn how to upgrade his servers
<br>first.<br><br>We have people like "Operations Jabeens" that want it all Open Source and<br>FREE. He is clearly not able to do it him self but is complaining that he<br>may have to pay a consultant.<br><br>Alex don't want to use Asterisk for VOIP or calling card. He it claming
<br>Asterisk is not up to it. So what is he doing on the Asterisk Biz list. Is<br>he a spy?<br><br>We used to have our own billing solution. It was working ok but took to much<br>time to maintain. Now we are using <a href="http://astbill.com">
http://astbill.com</a> It is working exelent.<br>We where able to install it our self but we choose to pay a very minimal<br>amount to the developers to ensure we got it right. I also have spoken to 4<br>other smaal providers using AstBill. It works for them. One of them have
<br>12000 calling card customers another one have 6000 VOIP customers.<br><br>So if your think Asterisk can't do callining card. You are not up to date!<br>Get REAL.<br><br>If you can't pay a minimal fee to get a billing system for your business
<br>running. Get another business.<br><br>Mark Spencer and Digium have given us Asterisk as a gift. Many peoole are<br>earning money on it Open Source is a fantastic but please understand that<br>Open Source is not FREE. If you can't do it your self You pay.
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