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

[Cameron S. <ca...@sc...>]

Can you keep your spam off the asterisk-java-users list?  You post had 
absolutely nothing to do with Asterisk-java.  One final point, if you're 
going to write your marketing pitch in English, you may want to make 
sure it is grammatically correct.

Thanks,
Cam

Olivier wrote:

> 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
>
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