Asterisk might be fine for small companies who have in-house Linux knowledge (and time).
But in reality it's a long way from being a viable call center solution (feature & client wise).
People just want to plug it in a have it go, people want to be able to manipulate calls and messages from Outlook and Lotus, it's about having an soultion which integrates with existing technology.
Check out IPFX http://www.ipfx.com/ it does all of this and more. OSS solutions will only boom if they match this level of sophistication.
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Touche! I'll give you C is fast, but unless your writing software for wrist watches the C++ bloat argument just does not make sense anymore.
Do you ride a horse to work?
Amen to that, anybody heard of std::string?, it's been around for awhile now.....
VOIP for the masses must integrate with these mediums irrespective of your opinion of them. The idea is to have no MSCE (duh).
Asterisk might be fine for small companies who have in-house Linux knowledge (and time). But in reality it's a long way from being a viable call center solution (feature & client wise). People just want to plug it in a have it go, people want to be able to manipulate calls and messages from Outlook and Lotus, it's about having an soultion which integrates with existing technology. Check out IPFX http://www.ipfx.com/ it does all of this and more. OSS solutions will only boom if they match this level of sophistication.