[Asterisk-Users] Commercial release of SIP-based IVR system

[Steven Critchfield]

On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 14:36, Razvan Dragomirescu wrote:
> Oh dear, not the old "Java is slow, Java sucks, C is sooo much better"
> thing again .... Did you actually download it and try it? Are you
> speaking from personal experience with server-side Java products? Did
> you write one yourself and found it to be slow?

It's funny how a search on google for java realtime doesn't find
anything recent to look up. 

> And how exactly is Asterisk a competitor for IPIVR? Does the fact that
> both have something to do with telephony automatically make them
> competitors? Does Asterisk run on Windows? Does IPIVR do non-VoIP
> telephony?

I'm sure asterisk is capable of doing everything telphony wise that your
app is capable of doing, or will soon enough. Asterisk also doesn't
suffer from whose java implementation is choosen, nor the stability of a
windows machine. Want to dig deeper on why your app should not have seen
the light of day? 

> Are you one of those people that thinks JavaScript is just a thing they
> invented for scripting websites? Mind you, I think JavaScript is a lot
> easier to learn for people that come from programming environments
> (compare it to Voice XML for instance...). Yeah, but I know, real
> programmers don't use JavaScript, right?

Real programmers usually have access to languages that where designed to
be extensible. Asterisk allows you any language that can be executed
under linux, therefore your comments on how easy javascript is for a
programmer is not really relevant regardless of what it was designed to
accomplish.

-- 
Steven Critchfield  <critch at basesys.com>