So what are peoples views on the new Elastix 2.0? Their website looks really nice, but need to know if anyone tried their 2.0? Also they seem to have done a new FOP. This is not a flame or who is better post just curious how it stacks.
Eric
Elastix the next trixbox?
Submitted by cougarmast on Wed, 09/01/2010 - 12:15am.
if you speak spanish,
Wed, 09/01/2010 - 3:39pm
if you speak spanish, great.. but annoying as hell if you have a big environment to run it in. Debug logs seem to be directed toward spanish speakers, which is fine. And all endpoints are manually coded. Elastix does have a potential and so far they are going down a decent path, however don't be supprised if they pull a fonality soon and basically pull everyone off the opensource dev team and only onto a commercial solutions team.
Since Fonality acquired
Wed, 09/01/2010 - 4:29pm
Since Fonality acquired trixbox they already had a devel team for the paid product. Although the trixbox team and PBXtra team work together people don't get pulled from one team to another. We have alwasy had a very small team for trixbox.
As for Elastix they make a great product but it is heavily geared toward the South American market. Since they don't have a paid product now I'm not sure how they make money. There are quite a few different Asterisk distros all with their own pluses an minuses.
I feel the next stage of
Wed, 09/01/2010 - 5:59pm
I feel the next stage of open source telephony will be sipXecs Which is now commercially backed by Ezuce. While it's not as customizable as trixbox CE it's a lot more scalable and much easier to manage on a day to day basis. The endpoint manager is the best available in the open source world.
Not long ago sipfoundry experienced a predicament similar to what trixbox CE is in right now: Avaya was diverting much of it's energies to the "commercial" portion of the project and keeping outside developers from contributing or utilizing all the available features. At this point a few of the founders of sipfoundry decided it was time to take sipfoundry back and concentrate on two things:
- Developing a fully tested "hardened" commercial version of the open source project (in this case it's called OpenUC). This is similar to Red Hat vs. Fedora, in this case it's OpenUC vs. sipXecs.
- Providing paid support to the users of both the commercial product and the open source project instead of trying to hoard "special features" for their commercial version.
That's not to say community support doesn't exist, the mailing list is very active and the wiki gets better by the day.
I am not an employee of Ezuce nor am I affiliated with them. I just use the sipXecs software and contribute on their wiki when I can. I also use Asterisk to develop custom applications which is where Asterisk shines in my opinion.
My sipX system is up to 300 extensions scattered across 10 locations. I couldn't have done this with a FreePBX based solution without a lot of custom programming.
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