[Asterisk-Users] NetworkWorld article on Open Source Telephony

[Chris Bond]

> The power of asterisk comes from its method of config. If one wraps it 
> with a GUI one will inherently limit the flexibility.

> Then since the GUI is what gets 'seen' people ~may~ take the lack of 
> flexibility or even just the look and flow of the GUI to be a reflection 
> on the power of Asterisk.

But if it was an official addon from the cvs tree (similar to the voicemail
cgi stuff), it would make take-up a lot easier =) 

That way you wouldn't make people "stuck" to one GUI, if they don't want it
they don't need to check it out. Its just at the moment, you've got sub
projects for lots of different GUIs, what needs to happen is someone to
consolidate what's out there and bring it all into one official project.  It
makes sense that the GUI becomes a web one, then it can run on a number of
web browser platforms.

Kind Regards,
Chris Bond