[asterisk-biz] Switchvox Free Edition

Sun Nov 4 01:37:14 CDT 2007

Dave,

No problem, I appreciate your response - I was not offended:-). I would be
happy to reintroduce you to thirdlane, and if you prefer switchvox it is
fine with me. 

Truthfully, I think I got a bit sensitive after looking at a long list
including Trixbox and numerous Trixbox clones which happen to package and
repackage freepbx and friends.

Best regards,

Alex

Alex Epshteyn

Third Lane Technologies, LLC

http://www.thirdlane.com

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[mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of dave cantera
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 3:41 AM
To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Switchvox Free Edition

alex,
point well taken...  sorry I offended you...  when I was investigating * 3
yrs ago, I inquired about thirdlane and I chose switchvox over thirdlane
because of reasons I can not recall now and will not speculate about.
switchvox provided quick entry into the market...   no fuss, no muss...
perhaps I'll download your product again and re-evaluate...  at VON, the new
release of switchvox has the plugin feature which is customizable..  

as was suggested by another post, perhaps there should be a comparison
created that takes a comprehensive look at the gui options for *... 
any takers?
daveC

Alex Epshteyn wrote: 

Dave,

I rarely get affected by any postings but I think that today you did hurt my
feelings :-) - you may know that I happen to be the author of another GUI -
Thirdlane PBX Manager. I was just wondering - what makes you say that
Switchvox is "light years ahead of anything else"? Did you have some really
bad experience with a particular GUI or just "anything else"?

Absolutely nothing against Switchvox, I am just curious what makes you feel
so strongly (negative about anything else)? And only one complaint you have
about the software? I have many complaints about our own software after 3
years of constant improvement and so do our customers, plus there is a long
list of feature requests. 

Have you tried Thirdlane, or PBXware (Senad, I hope you don't mind me
speaking on your behalf - I think highly of PBXware even though you are a
competition), or any other GUIs recently? 

Well, since Dean is going to do the burning and the testing we should
probably let Dean decide what he likes. That said - gentlemen prefer blondes
:-) 

Best regards,

Alex 

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[mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of dave cantera
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 9:03 AM
To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
Cc: Cantera, David (IBS); stotaro at totarotechnologies.com
Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Switchvox Free Edition

I haven't seen the free edition but I have used switchvox for about three
years now... the equipment works flawlessly, quick to install, is easy to
use, and easy to train on...  

yes, their gui is light years ahead of anything else and that is why digium
was smart enough to pick them up.  the guys and gals at switchvox are top
notch designers.  there is only one complaint that I have and if there is
only one complaint, you know the product is good.   the complaint was that
in installations of over 500+ extensions or intricate IVRs, it was tedious
to page through or scroll the web interface.  I talked to tristen at VON
Boston and they are reworking that mechanism.  

in the past, they integrated the asterisk product and probably worked
closely with digium programmers to get * bug fixes they they found
identified.  now that workload is offloaded to digium and they can
concentrate more on the gui.  
the latest release, that I haven't seen until this week at VON, has plugins
so you can do cool things like 'google' a caller id, pop up a google map of
where the call came from, launch sales force or sugarCRM right in their
gui... you can even design your own plugins...   

switchvox was already ahead of the competitors in this marketplace, this new
release leapfrogs them 100 fold.  switchvox has made a smart move by adding
the plugins  digium saw the benefit of picking them up, and it is a VERY
wise choice to add this into your product mix.
daveC

Steve Totaro wrote: 

Antonio Gallo wrote:

Tim Booth ha scritto:

It looks like its limited to 15 extensions and no access to most of the 
call center things and no call recording. Another free distro stealing 
some of the trixboxers is CentPBX.

SwitchVox has a really nice GUI, not to mention i stoled their website 
them for my own personal website some years ago (now rewroted).

I got some decent idea for reimplementing the GUI for the PBX of my 
company, we're going to release a free version too in january.

so basically SwitchVox pw0n TrixBox badly

AgX

That should read "Digium/Adtran" p0wned "Trixbox". 

Made for some fun undertones at Astricon. 

I wish I had snapped a picture of Mark Spencer standing in front of the 
larger than life Trixbox convention setup with a BIG grin on his face 
the evening before the announcement of the Switchvox acquisition.  I 
wondered why the sh*t eating grin.....  Too funny.

Thanks,
Steve

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