[Asterisk-Users] Re: Transfer with Budgetone

Philipp von Klitzing klitzing at pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
Thu Jun 3 07:27:17 MST 2004


Hi!

> > BTW: And are you sure people wouldn't like to have voicemail? You'll need 
> > to make them want that... ;-> I guess you can even argue that voicemail 
> > increases productivity.
> 
> Since we share phones (at least the developers/non customer facing 
> people) voicemail wouldn't work too well because we'd get each others' 
> messages.  The pen & sticky pad method seems to be OK.  If everyone had 
> their own phone of course I could see it being quite useful (even a 
> selling point of VOIP).

Seems like you are still a bit stuck with old analog line = 1 phone 
thinking. With Asterisk you can easily make arrangements for two or three 
people sharing the same single phone to each have vm boxes of their own.

> > I'd rather use X-Lite than MSN Messenger...
> 
> The advantage that MSN Messenger has is that it's installed on every 
> machine (whether you like it or not!) so it's a zero effort (and zero 
> cost) fallback.

So also everyone has a headset plus a soundcard, I assume? ;->

Cheers, Philipp
 




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