Coming from the ‘commercial side’ of the Asterisk commmunity rather than the coding side I’ve been a long time proponent to making Asterisk available to everyone; not just those who know how to code raw conf files in Vi (If you didn’t understand that then you weren’t welcome in the Asterisk community 3 or so years ago).

I recently came across a ZDnet article on the cogoblue asterisk appliance that was launched last week.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Greenfield/?p=215
http://www.cogoblue.com

Not commenting on the article or the appliance.

But just wanted to highlight that it’s good to see asterisk vendors reaching out beyond the usual geek marketing areas. Yes ZDnet has a tech focus but it’s pretty mainstream, so should be reaching an audience not currently being reached.

Lol – though nothing is going to top the Forbes article about Mark Spencer that was printed in http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/0410/063.html

Half of their readers wouldn’t even know what a PABX actually is.

The cool part of the asterisk technology is this. By buying a lowcost appliance or reusing an old outdated server (my personal asterisk server runs on an old 1ghz p3) you can implement the latest and great functionality in voip and all the features you want like voicemail to email or sms alerts when you miss a call etc.

Have a play, you’ll be surprised how quickly your office cant live without it.

Regards,

Dean Collins
http://www.Cognation.net