[asterisk-users] AsteriskNOW release date???

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Tuesday 18 December 2007 10:13:59 Steve Totaro wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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".

That's incorrect.  At this time, there are no plans to discontinue development
of the free GUI.

> I ask, what is the incentive to put out a full featured GUI for free at
> this point?

Well, for one, the appliance and any other hardware that is not beefy enough
to run Switchvox.

> 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.

Not exactly a fair attack.  The GUI was designed to respond to a direct
end user complaint that they didn't know from whom to purchase extra phones.
The appliance is meant to help those specific people who do not know where to
go buy phones or how to provision them (and don't care to learn).

It's interesting, is it not, that Digium is simultaneously attacked in one
thread for not responding to user demands and another thread for giving end
users exactly what they demanded?

> FreePBX seems to be the most logical choice to me.

Which is being leveraged to take away business to anyone who has not sworn
allegiance to Fonality.  Sorry, couldn't resist.  ;-)

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Tilghman