[Asterisk-Dev] Asterisk Port to Windows

[tim panton]

On 18 Jan 2006, at 19:20, Chad Brown wrote:

> I agree. I'm running a 40 person shop distributed over 2 continents  
> on a
> couple Asterisk servers.
>
> But keep in mind...this is about capitalizing on a large group of SBS
> implementations in the small business space. The folks know nothing
> about Linux perhaps even have a minimal understanding of Windows. They
> just want to run their small business and take advantage of VoIP along
> the way. Make sense?

No, not really. They probably don't care what
their router, printer, printserver runs. They never cared
before what OS their PBX runs, so why should they now?

>
> I just want to know if the idea is viable. If it is...is there anyone
> who would want to participate for compensation.

My advice would be:
1) Don't think that soft PBX is going to be happy sharing a system
with any other resource hungry software. The whole manta here is
to keep the Asterisk box doing the minimum and farm out as much as
you can to satellite boxes. That being the case there is no visible
benefit in moving asterisk to a general purpose server (of any kind).
2) Asterisk knows _lots_ about the platform it is on, interrupt rate,  
file
system semantics, threading, locking etc. Look at the fun folks have
trying to port it to Darwin (they gave up), Windows is going to be
lots of work. You'd get something that nearly works pretty quickly,
then get bogged down in the other 10% :-)
3) You'd do best to to a packaging/integration exercise with Asterisk,
so that it co-operates with SBS - sharing users, leveraging cool
exchange features, storing call records in SQLserver etc, but leave it
running on a box - that happens to be a cutdown linux distro.

>
> Thanks.

There, that's off my chest now!

T.
http://www.westhawk.co.uk/

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