Re: [Asterisk-java-users] A newbie introduction

[Olivier <oza...@my...>]

Fred,

Have you considered buying a custom Asterisk system along training ?

Having a fully functionnal Asterisk system running and complying to your
requirements just needs a couple of hours for experienced staff but it asks
days and weeks of labour if one has to learn by himself from scratch
(reading mailing lists itself, consumes much time and ressources ).

I'm running a french 6 people startup dedicated to Asterisk consulting and
services.
As our customer base grows, I'm warning more and more oftenly, prospective
or old customers about what they can really hope with Asterisk home
customisation :

- If you operate a single system, it's very very likely you won't have the
opportunity to tune it or to try and learn with it : you spend weeks of
labour to make it run and then, you won't touch it anymore because you can't
stop your running system. So in the end, what are the benefits ? You've
learned something you won't use anymore.

- It's easy to specify programming interfaces and plug a Java software and
tune that application. But Asterisk deals with hardware and real time, and
believe me, it can be very very long to master its behaviour.

- Moving or adding users takes a couple of minutes. It's not necessary to
customise yourself your system to avoid paying anything for that (you can be
trained on that)
 but adding a queue, for example, will remain out of reach of most.

- It's Open Source but adding any significant feature is a dream for most
companies as the learning curve is very very steep (no documentation, no
training, ...)


Please, feel free to contact me off-list.
Best wishes for your project.

Olivier