[Asterisk-Users] RE: Number of production asterisk systems (Christopher Jacob)

[Josiah Bryan]

On Thursday 28 April 2005 1:52 pm, Greg Eaton wrote:
...
> In terms of finding out true factual data, in terms of reference perhaps
> digium would share market data (but then they might not!) and we could
> extrapolate from there, but given how much of a community is building up
> around the product I would suggest some form of "self-registration".
> i.e. you/someone sets up a webpage and then users are encourage to
> 'register' their systems on this web page, I guess with basic data such
> as Country, Company, Industry, Location, Number of Sites, Number of
> Users, usual daily call volume, gives us the basic metrics. Contact
> information could be added for reference which might be of use.

I just put together a small production survey form on a mysql database using 
the fields you mentioned and put it on my R&D server. 

I'd encourage everyone to do as Greg suggested and register your system 
install at: 

http://207.40.85.50/production_survey.cgi

The data from the survey is freely available upon request. I'll try to put 
together a web interface to view the db when i have a few more free hours.

Let me know if anyone has any trouble accessing the script or has any 
suggestions to make the survey better.

Note:
Its a non-mod_perl script (just 96 lines of quickly written perl code using 
HTML::Template) running on  a MySQL database. It uses Randal Schwartz's 
technique to limit instances of CGI scripts from his 2000 column at 
http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/WebTechniques/col54.html.

Anyway, all that just to say be nice and dont melt my serves. :-) 

-- 
Josiah Bryan
IT Coordinator
Productive Concepts, Inc.
jbryan at productiveconcepts.com
(765) 964-6009, ext. 224