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alex,<br>
point well taken... sorry I offended you... when I was investigating
* 3 yrs ago, I inquired about thirdlane and I chose switchvox over
thirdlane because of reasons I can not recall now and will not
speculate about. switchvox provided quick entry into the market...
no fuss, no muss... perhaps I'll download your product again and
re-evaluate... at VON, the new release of switchvox has the plugin
feature which is customizable.. <br>
<br>
as was suggested by another post, perhaps there should be a comparison
created that takes a comprehensive look at the gui options for *... <br>
any takers?<br>
daveC<br>
<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Dave,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">I rarely get
affected by any postings but
I think that today you did hurt my feelings </span></font><font
color="navy" face="Wingdings" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Wingdings; color: navy;">J</span></font><font
color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> – 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”?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">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. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">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? <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">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 </span></font><font color="navy"
face="Wingdings" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Wingdings; color: navy;">J</span></font><font
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Alex <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces@lists.digium.com">asterisk-biz-bounces@lists.digium.com</a>
[<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces@lists.digium.com">mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces@lists.digium.com</a>] <b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">On Behalf Of </span></b>dave cantera<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday,
November 01, 2007
9:03 AM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName
w:st="on">Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> Cantera, David
(IBS);
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:stotaro@totarotechnologies.com">stotaro@totarotechnologies.com</a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re:
[asterisk-biz]
Switchvox Free Edition</span></font><font color="black"><span
style="color: windowtext;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#330000" face="Times New Roman"
size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">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... <br>
<br>
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. <br>
<br>
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. <br>
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... <br>
<br>
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.<br>
daveC<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Steve Totaro wrote: <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt;">Antonio Gallo wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
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style="font-size: 10pt;">Tim Booth ha scritto:<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
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style="font-size: 10pt;">It looks like its limited to 15 extensions and no access to most of the <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="#330000" face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">call center things and no call recording. Another free distro stealing <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="#330000" face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">some of the trixboxers is CentPBX.<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="#330000" face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
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<pre wrap=""><font color="#330000" face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">SwitchVox has a really nice GUI, not to mention i stoled their website <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="#330000" face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">them for my own personal website some years ago (now rewroted).<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="#330000" face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="#330000" face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">I got some decent idea for reimplementing the GUI for the PBX of my <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="#330000" face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">company, we're going to release a free version too in january.<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
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style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="#330000" face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">so basically SwitchVox pw0n TrixBox badly<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
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style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="#330000" face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">AgX<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
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style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre>
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<pre wrap=""><font color="#330000" face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">That should read "Digium/Adtran" p0wned "Trixbox". <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="#330000" face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="#330000" face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">Made for some fun undertones at Astricon. <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="#330000" face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="#330000" face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">I wish I had snapped a picture of Mark Spencer standing in front of the <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="#330000" face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">larger than life Trixbox convention setup with a BIG grin on his face <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="#330000" face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">the evening before the announcement of the Switchvox acquisition. I <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
<pre><font color="#330000" face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">wondered why the sh*t eating grin..... Too funny.<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
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<pre><font color="#330000" face="Courier New" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
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