Asterisk - the Open-Source PBX [LWN.net]

Asterisk - the Open-Source PBX

Posted Nov 18, 2005 14:20 UTC (Fri) by shane (subscriber, #3335)
Parent article: Asterisk - the Open-Source PBX

We just spent a large amount of cash on a proprietary PABX, because our
Ops manager considered Asterisk to be "immature". :(

I guess I can't blame him too much, since we spent a lot more cash on a
proprietary issue tracking system (HEAT from FrontRange) because I decided
none of the open source solutions were good enough.

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Asterisk - the Open-Source PBX

Posted Nov 25, 2005 20:52 UTC (Fri) by theraphim (subscriber, #25955) [Link]

Asterisk is really immature but many commercial solutions isn't just flexible enough. Or just won't work.

I have negative experience dealing with commercial wap gateway by LogicaCMG (superseded by kannel - http://kannel.org) and Alcatel's PBX which cannot be easily replaced because of it being complete solution (with alcatel' phones).

Telecom industry progressing very slowly and traditionally keeping very high prices on everything. Even immature asterisk, or more promising project like yate can beat almost any commercial pbx in almost any aspect.