Comments on: Oops! Programmer Accidentally Destroys Multi-Billion Dollar Industry.

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Second Life For The Disabled, Indeed by Laigoo - All In One — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:29:35 +0000

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By: Suzanne Bowen

Suzanne Bowen — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:49:48 +0000

Man, this article rocks! I didn’t realize all that you’ve done in your life, Mark. And thank you so much for the Digium award this year 2007 for the Service Provider innovation award announced at Fall VON 2007 to DIDXchange. Around 7000 or so carriers and voip entreneurs are using DIDXchange because of OPEN SOURCE that is absolutely embraced by 100s of 1000s of people all over the world as a result… and growing by the minute.

By: mixazen

mixazen — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 16:35:27 +0000

thx, good blog:)

By: Rehan Allahwala

Rehan Allahwala — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 14:17:15 +0000

Thank You Mark for Creating the Wonderful product, and allowing the world to use it, and let us create amazing products using it.

Rehan

By: Kate

Kate — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 12:19:04 +0000

Big oops!

By: Mike Frager

Mike Frager — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 16:12:19 +0000

I think Asterisk is getting a little bit ahead of itself. First, let me say that I have personally set up an Asterisk system for my company. But it is clearly not a product that is ready for prime-time. It is a LONG way from being the Apache of VOIP.

While Asterisk can generally be made to work for small setups, it is A HUGE PAIN! It is a nightmare to debug the SIP connections that are necessary for just a simple set up. Also, the configuration files a stupidly arcane and the documentation next to worthless.

Finally, Asterisk is not scalable at all. That is why big VOIP setups use programs like sipX and OpenSER.

I’m not saying that Asterisk couldn’t be fixed, improved and made more stable and scalable. But until that happens I don’t think real companies are going to be dropping their hardware solutions any time soon.

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 11:50:35 +0000

Asterisk is definitely the future of telephony. As technical manager for an ITSP company I have personally built systems using Asterisk and other open source applications that have all the functionality of “enterprise grade” systems which can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Keep up the good work Mark!