[Mac-telephony-list] LinuxPPC & * or OpenPBX?

[Amanda Walker via List]

On Dec 22, 2006, at 11:07 AM, Thoth via List wrote:
> In regards to Amanda and Ben, you people are making Linux out to be
> much scarier than it is.

I wasn't implying that Linux was scary, just that most of the  
advantages that people have been describing for Linux servers also  
apply to Mac servers.  Macs are not just desktop machines with fancy  
graphics, which is how some of this discussion has been framed.

> Like I said, Tom's little rant makes me want a farm of thirty, but
> practicality says I have fewer.

For high-volume stuff, a farm of Linux machines is hard to beat for  
cost effectiveness.  I love Macs, but they get trounced on price/ 
performance compared to a Linux box configured with only the things  
you need.  At my day job, clustered Linux boxes power pretty much  
everything we do.

If you want to replace a traditional business PBX, a dedicated Linux  
box is, right now, the most cost effective way to do it.

But that wasn't why I jumped into this thread.

All I was trying to get across is that this is not the only  
interesting part of the problem space.  A Mac-only shop might well  
find that setting up a dedicated Mac OS X box is less hassle than  
setting up a dedicated Linux box, given the personnel and hardware  
they already have.  An individual professional or hobbyist might well  
find that running a telephony server on a shared server that's barely  
ticking over might be more cost effective than dedicating a separate  
machine to it.


Amanda Walker