Re: wish: skype info
chris h <[email protected]>
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On Sunday 10 April 2005 11:01, Helge Hess wrote: > BTW: I'm not entirely sure whether we should push for highly > proprietary systems like Skype. Rather work on Asterisk/VoIP. Some thoughts on this issue if I may. 1. Skype's uptake is huge and growing. Yes its proprietary. 2. Its a client application that is OS specific with ports available for Mac, Linux and windows...its still all client side however connecting to a central server only once launched. 3. Asterisk is a better system, more standards compliant and offers more features however its a server side application that needs to be integrated with a local handset vs local application. Softphone versions are available however in comparison to Skype not as pervasive. 4. In short, Skype is typically userland centric and asterisk at this time is more commercially orientation (ie: commercial deployments) 5. Skype is basically a softphone application whereas Asterisk is a server mostly used to connect to hard phones Interesting products, both of them. /ch -- OpenGroupware.org Discussion [email protected] http://mail.opengroupware.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss