[Asterisk-Users] Linux and Windows

[james]

> The trouble is innertia. Most Windoze folks are so much into their
> Windoze routine, they won't even use a Linux or BSD box if you install
> it for them. I have got a friend in the UK who is always complaining
> about his Windoze box being down and having to rebuild it from scratch
> because of viruses, DLL hell, hardware quirks and god knows what else.
> For years I told him that he could get rid of all that once and for
> all very easily. When I started with Asterisk, there was finally
> something that got him interested because he's a telephone junkie.

Well then, how did you expect your win-weenies to admin a hardware based
phone system then? It sounds like they didn't admin them. Why should
they admin a new * phone system? 

The fact that a phone system can exist in software and run on a computer
doesn't mean that just anyone can admin it. Besides a myriad of OS
related issues, there is a huge volume of telecom related issue involved
too. Larger phone systems have always been based on a varient of Unix
(and not just AT&T/Avaya/Lucent). Admining Unix is part of being a phone
system administrator.