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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I asked the Adtran/Digium guys a
similar question at the end of "What's New at Digium" at this year's
Astricon in Arizona, which was just the announecment of the aquisition
of SwitchVox. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The reply was less than encouraging for future dev
on the free GUI which is what I expected. While very vague and obviously a
question they were not ready for, the answer was something along the lines of
"Mumble, mumble, it will be up to the community to continue
development". </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I ask, what is the incentive to put out a full
featured GUI for free at this point? </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Take into consideration the SwitchVox
aquisition and aslo the recent news from 3Com. I see no reason to continue
dev on AsteriskNOW except the fact that it is rigged to move the end user
to order phones through a link that will obviously take business away
to anyone who has not sworn allegiance to Digium (and their first born) to
become part of their food chain. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>FreePBX seems to be the most logical
choice to me.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Steve Totaro </FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=raulgomez@cantv.net href="mailto:raulgomez@cantv.net">Raúl Gómez
C.</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=asterisk-users@lists.digium.com
href="mailto:asterisk-users@lists.digium.com">Asterisk Users Mailing List -
Non-Commercial Discussion</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, December 18, 2007 10:16
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [asterisk-users] AsteriskNOW
release date???</DIV>
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<DIV>Hi list,<BR><BR>Anyone knows about the date of the official (stable)
release (v1.0) of AsteriskNOW??? It's supposed to be at the end of this year,
which is very close now with no signs of it.<BR><BR>Thanks...<BR><BR>Raul
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