[Asterisk-Users] Win up to $2000 for AsteriskEnterpriseReferences!

[Douglas Garstang]

While we're on the topic, just what are those 3,000 improvements that Digium said where in Asterisk 1.2? Where are these improvements listed? Where are they documented?
 
I'm sure Digum works insanely hard in the software and hardware department. I'd just like to see them work a little harder in the documentation deparment. 
 
Of course most of the problems are config problem, problems that could be fixed a lot faster if there was documentation.
 
I think they'd also see a lot more sucess stories if Asterisk as a general rule addressed the issue of redundancy and the ability to add additional Asterisk servers for redundancy. No one wants to implement phone solution with a single point of failure. A good case in point is Asterisk realtime and it's apparent (I say apparent because it isn't officially documented anywhere) inability to share SIP contact information between Asterisk boxes in a common MySQL database. Call me crazy, but I would have thought this would have been a great way to share user contact info between multiple redundant Asterisk systems.
 
 
 

	-----Original Message----- 
	From: Boris Bakchiev [mailto:boris at jildent.com.au] 
	Sent: Tue 12/6/2005 10:01 PM 
	To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion 
	Cc: 
	Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Win up to $2000 for AsteriskEnterpriseReferences!
	
	

	Why not?
	
	Digium works hard in hardware & software department.
	It constantly improves its hardware offering.
	
	The software arm has been busier then ever! Million bug fixes, MANY MANY
	improvements, roadmap (at least from what I can see from contributing
	developers in SVN) is amazing.
	
	Asterisk and Digium have great feature together. Admittedly almost all
	had problems in one place or another but most of it is "user/config"
	problem.
	
	I would not have invested in Digium's hardware and taken up asterisk if
	I were not confident that Asterisk can "cut it".
	
	If you take a look at general Digium & Asterisk are success stories in
	itself!
	
	I'd volunteer for sure but my little installation probably a drop in the
	ocean compare to the ones I hear and read about and Australia is not
	exactly has competitive market for that. :)
	
	In fact I share the same view about any company that supports Asterisk
	community. Even for Digium competitors (who have the same dedication as
	Digium as well)
	
	
	Give it a chance, lets not forget that Digium spends great time, effort
	and expense getting Asterisk to where it is now. I don't know of many
	hardware manufacturers that do the same thing.
	
	Regards
	
	>I was going to bite my tongue on my response to this, but keeping quiet
	is >driving me nuts.
	
	>If this is a legit post...
	
	>In short, this irritates the heck out of me. Maybe if Digum supplied
	some >documentation for less than $175/hr, then there might be a few
	success >stories. The lack of any official documentation in my opinion
	is limiting >the success of Asterisk. I seem to spend most of my
	Asterisk time >researching people's personal heresay about how to get
	stuff to work. Often .the personal heresay is just someone else's
	heresay cut and pasted.
	
	>Why the heck should anyone help Digium with good press in this
	instance?
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