[Asterisk-Users] Re: How far is IAX to be a Standard

[Jim Van Meggelen]

asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com wrote:
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> Behalf Of Steve Totaro
>> Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 12:53 PM
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>> No worries here.  What works best will win out eventually.
> 
> Not old enough to remember this, but wasn't Beta better than VHS?

Interesting point, but then we'd need to define "better".

Technically, Beta is considered to be superior. So much so that it
became very successful in the professional media industry. VHS went
consumer, Beta went pro.

The failure of Betamax in the consumer market is probably due to the VHS
consortium offering more choice to the consumer than Sony did with Beta.
So VHS was "better" by virtue of 1) lower price; 2) wider selection of 

For IAX, success will be based on several factors:

Technical superiority
Price (i.e. how much does it cost to configure and maintain)
Compatibility (how many products support it).