[Asterisk-Dev] Asterisk Port to Windows

[Steve Totaro]

Look at the 3Com NBX.  Nobody cares that it is running on VxWorks, all
they care about is the full featured web GUI that can be opened in any
browser on a Windows machine.

 

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From: tim panton [mailto:tpanton at attglobal.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 3:30 PM
To: Asterisk Developers Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Dev] Asterisk Port to Windows

 

 

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/