Asterisk Breeds A Cottage Industry
gardel writes "The open-source PBX is popular, powerful and affordable. But setting up and maintaining Asterisk in its distributed form is a technical challenge for even the most accomplished of geeks. Now, Voxilla reports, several new companies (more than 60, at last count), smelling a good business opportunity, offer simplified graphical front-ends for Asterisk. And more are on the way."
So we're getting a bigger and better version of the Norstar system we've got now.
My company ditched Norstar and went with Cisco VoIP phones and phone servers. There's your solution.