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<FONT SIZE="2" POINTSIZE="11" DEFAULT="SIZE">On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 08:16:58 -0400, Dean Collins wrote:<BR>
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>I disagree with you entirely which is why I've been such a strong<BR>
>supporter for Asterisk@home and now of Trixbox.<BR>
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>There is no reason why this technology shouldn't be installed directly<BR>
>by an end user.<BR>
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>It's no more complicated than messenger with LCS etc, it's just MS does<BR>
>a better job of hiding the complexity.<BR>
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I don't entirely disagree. I said "a typical end user." There are end users who can and should undertake such matters. As a Linux newby I'm one of those who can do such things with some research and occasional assistance. I am intent upon self reliance, and I don't bash the software for my own inexperience or failings. However, there is a broad range of users out there....consider my wife for example....who would have no clue and should not even try. She loves her Aastra 480i CT phone, but can't be bothered even entering numbers into the phones directory...good thing I load that off the server ;-) <BR>
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I looked at A@H for my office but went another direction. It's handy but in some ways limiting. I think that making the effort to learn the setups by hand has had some rewards. I did pay someone a token amount to write my first configs to get me started three years ago. I eventually settled on Astlinux running on embedded hardware as preferable for my application.<BR>
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I can't speak to the complexity of LCS, but I have noted that a m0n0wall router is a whole lot easier than setting up the equivalent functions in Windows 2003 Server.<BR>
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Not everything needs to be easy. Just because something is easy doesn't make it good. Some stuff needs to be very good....and the benefits are worth the learning curve.<BR>
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Michael<BR>
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>Cheers,<BR>
>Dean<BR>
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>> -----Original Message-----<BR>
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>> <FONT COLOR=0000ff><U>bounces@lists.digium.com<FONT COLOR=000000 DEFAULT="COLOR"></U>] On Behalf Of Michael Graves<BR>
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>> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion<BR>
>> Subject: RE: [asterisk-users] Just bought a Polycom 501 - I feellike<BR>
>myGXP-2000<BR>
>> was better...<BR>
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>> On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 18:34:24 -0700, shadowym wrote:<BR>
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>> >One of the problems with opinions on these forums IMHO is that they<BR>
>are<BR>
>> >mostly from technical types and not typical end users.<BR>
>> <BR>
>> Typical end users would have no business configuring a PBX such as<BR>
>Asterisk. A<BR>
>> typical end user would leave that to a professional.<BR>
>> <BR>
>> OTOH, those who are responsible for PBX systems often answer to<BR>
>"typical end<BR>
>> users" in a fashion, and so very likely have faced a number of<BR>
>opinions about<BR>
>> things...well founded and<BR>
>> otherwise.<BR>
>> <BR>
>> Michael<BR>
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