[Asterisk-Dev] Asterisk Port to Windows

[Alexander Lopez]

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> From: asterisk-dev-bounces at lists.digium.com 
> [mailto:asterisk-dev-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of BJ Weschke
> Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 2:21 PM
> To: Asterisk Developers Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Dev] Asterisk Port to Windows
> 
> On 1/18/06, Chad Brown <chad.brown at identitymine.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Does anyone know if an effort is being made to port Asterisk to 
> > Windows? I'm not talking about Cygwin but a native port.
> >
> >
> >
> > I know some folks in Seattle/Redmond Washington area that have some 
> > funding for IPPBX development on Microsoft SBS servers. 
> Their original 
> > investment was in a well known and successful Windows based IPPBX. 
> > However the mothership of that company is difficult to 
> share IP with. 
> > Long story short...In an effort to get a jump on development 
> they were 
> > throwing around the idea of assembling a team to port Asterisk (Or 
> > some other open-source) to Windows. They've asked me to do some 
> > research on the topic and assemble the team once given the 
> go-ahead. 
> > There is a major opportunity in the small business arena to 
> piggy-back 
> > an IPPBX off of the millions of SBS implementations.
> >
> >
> >
> > I'm still in the research stage but wanted to know if the funding 
> > exists would this be a valid concept. That said, may I ask 
> your opinion?
> >
> 
>  Asterisk and any other HMP modeled IPPBX isn't going to play 
> well with other applications running on the same box on which 
> it's running on. When you say piggy-back I'd hope you mean by 
> adding an additional server? Otherwise, you're really bound 
> to have trouble at some point because with most applications 
> when they don't get the CPU cycles they're looking for 
> they're just "slow". With an IPPBX in an HMP environment, 
> you're going to drop calls and have horrible sound quality 
> and that probably isn't going to be tolerable.
> 
> 
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> 

I wuld be more interesting in finding ways to have Asterisk integrate
with SBS or Windows without actually running ON Windows:

1.	Allow VM messages to be stored in Exchange.
2.	Use AD (Active Directory) to store extensions and locations of
users.
3.	Configure Asterisk as an appliance so that in 'plugs in' to the
network and is solid-state.

The reality is that most SMBs run Windows....

Alex