[asterisk-users] Cisco vs Asterisk

[Femi]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-
> bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Stephan Weinberger
> Sent: 29 July 2008 15:26
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Cisco vs Asterisk
> 
> Am Freitag, 25. Juli 2008 18:54 schrieb Al Baker:
> 
> > This is simply NOT TRUE and shows a complete lack of understanding of
> > modern software development. CISCO software is developed in a CMM
> > environment.
> > It has a formal test methodology and uses Automated Testing on EACH new
> > release to ensure that 100% of the software that functioned in the Last
> > Release, actually works in this release.
> 
> This is simply NOT TRUE and shows a complete lack of understanding of
> software
> testing.
> Even if a company (or OS developer) implements automatic tests that cover
> each
> and every existing functionality this does NOT automatically ensure, that
> the
> existing functionalty works together well with new features. Nor does it
> ensure that existing code does work as intended under NEW circumstances.
> 
> Testing (and I mean ANY form of testing, be it automatic or manual) can
> NEVER
> ensure the abscence of bugs!
> 
> 
> Additionally: Companies will never even atempt to find any bug. They will
> always only try to find as many bugs necessary to ensure that the cost of
> maintenance, bug-fixing, compensations and possibly loss of prestige does
> not
> exceed the cost of testing. Anything else would be financial loss.
> 
> --
> Stephan Weinberger

Anyone who has watched the OSS vs Commercial Software debate over the last
few years knows that OSS has turned the entire support model on its head and
has questioned the rationale for paying huge sums for support so much so
that even the commercial software companies have set up OSS-style
communities to provide support for their products.

I can tell you that you will most likely get an Asterisk bug fix before you
get a CCM bug fix.

As for bugs, perhaps you should check the list of "known issues" with CCM
and compare with the list of bugs in Asterisk. All software has bugs, you
just don't see a lot of people trying to get CCM to do things it wasn't
"designed" for.

- Femi