[Asterisk-Users] BGM Music

[Chris A. Icide]

On 09:12 AM 5/13/2004, brian wrote:
 >Every time I hear "But legacy PBX's (do it like this|has this)"  it makes me
 >wanna SCREAM.
 >
 >Asterisk is the new, the now, the hip... shed the old and bring on the new.
 >

<editorial>

However, there are very few real green fields out there, and people have 
expectations.  It really doesn't matter to the average employee using a 
telephone that you can do all these new and neat things.  What matters is 
that they knew how to use the phone efficiently yesterday, and today with 
their 'new-fangled' phone system nothing works like it did.  Many 
organizations who do business centered around the phone (sales, customer 
support, etc.), create procedures and policies around the way the phone 
works.  So in that case, you either make asterisk work like the previous 
PBX system, or asterisk doesn't get installed.

Such is real life.  I was flying home from Sydney to San Fran a while back 
and I was sitting next to an vehicle engineer for one of the major US 
manufacturers.  He worked in Australia and was telling me how widely CVT 
transmissions were in use in AU.  He told me of all the huge benefits over 
manual or automatic geared systems, and I asked him why we didn't have CVT 
transmissions in the US.  He said, "because having the engine running at 
one specific RPM even while accelerating or decelerating disorientated 
drivers used to engine sounds correlated with 
acceleration/deceleration".  I read an article just in the last few days 
comparing three new convertibles (mercedes, audi, and saab), and they 
really loved the audi, but one of the negatives they gave it was that it 
had a CVT and many drivers found that disturbing....

So from a commercial point of view, people who are working to install 
asterisk in place of legacy pbx or keysystems will always run into certain 
expectations, and so you will continue to see the messages on this list 
asking how to make asterisk do things "like model XYZ PBX/key system does".

</editorial>

 >Asterisk is about new and exciting ways of doing things and not some
 >BACKWARDS old legacy PBX way of doing thing.  * will let you be creative in
 >ways PBX's in the past only dream they could. (and some PBX's in the now
 >that cost in the THOUSANDS and have per port and per user license fees)
 >
 >The * has you, follow the white bunny! :P (yes there is no spoon)
 >
 >bkw
 >

Chris A. Icide
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