[asterisk-users] AsterikNow vs Trixbox

[George Pajari]

Apart from the feature/maturity issue there is a far more important 
(IMHO) difference in the architectural approach of the two GUIs.

FreePBX assumes it owns the world and completely re-writes its 
configuration files once changes are made through the GUI. While it 
makes token efforts to enable one to edit "custom" files which are 
includes into the configuration files -- the ability to make significant 
manual changes to the dialplan while still using the GUI is limited and 
challenging.

AsteriskNOW's GUI (which still in its early days) takes a much less 
dictatorial approach and will, to a much greater degree, cooperate with 
manual configuration changes.

Because of the difficulty of manually tweaking configurations generated 
by FreePBX, I have had to remove FreePBX from every customer who has 
started down this road (since they inevitably ask for something that 
cannot be configured through FreePBX and that requires manual tweaks).

While I have no yet deployed a 1.4 system with the Asterisk GUI at a 
customer site, my early experiments in the lab suggest that Digium's 
approach will be much more cooperative and flexible.

g.

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