[Freeswitch-users] FreeSWITCH

[Avi Marcus]

a) How do you know? On what basis are you judging that? It does seem true
that the average personal tinkerer is using Asterisk, but it seems many,
many, many (most?) larger scale when choosing between * and FS choose FS.
Some have legacy systems that they don't want to bother migrating, but new
stuff goes on FS.

b) That said, the do-it-for-me/hold-my-hand-the-entire-way group of people
- there's more tutorials, free code, distributions with decent guis for
Asterisk. Just take a look at pbx in a flash, it sounds like there's lots
of people who use that. However.. if that's all they are, it's not really
much of a help to the project to try to reach them. Unless you expect some
of them to grow beyond the basic need and offer back.
Other than "less" FOSS gui kind of stuff.. no, it seems FS pretty much has
it all.

Basically, for both a & b: there's lots of tintkerers out there using
asterisk. I doubt that's a worthwhile metric to use.

-Avi Marcus


On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 7:04 PM, Henry Huang <b_ball_henry at hotmail.com>wrote:

> Nothing. It's just hard to change the way people used to do things. I'd
> say if we can use existing FreePBX (version 2) to control underlying
> FreeSWITCH, then people will be jumping ship.
>
> But, that's just for IP PBX side of business. Wholesale or dialer
> application developer has been adopting the FreeSWITCH solution instead of
> Asterisk in general.
>
> Which side of critical mass are you referring to? (IP PBX or?)
>
> Henry
>
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 12:46 AM, Craig Smith <craigesmith at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Some recent frustrations with Asterisk have me looking at FreeSWITCH, but
>> it’s lack? of adoption leaves me wondering.
>>
>> Here are some questions I have as a long time Asterisk user, dCAP, and
>> Astricon attendee.
>>
>>
>> Why hasn’t FreeSWITCH reached a critical mass?
>>
>> Is the XML configuration that scary?
>>
>> What does Asterisk have that FreeSWITCH doesn’t?
>>
>> Does FreeSWITCH need better documentation and/or tutorials?
>>
>> Is it git?
>>
>> Would a FreeSWITCH certification help?
>>
>>
>> I want to help the FreeSWITCH project, but I’m not developer or
>> philanthropist , what can I do?
>>
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