Hello users, Can you share with me your experiences with Asterisk 1.6? Is it stable enough for commercial service? Thanks.>-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20080901/d849d412/attachment.htm
VoIP Cyprus wrote:> Can you share with me your experiences with Asterisk 1.6? Is it stable > enough for commercial service?No. No matter how good some people may tell you it is, 1.6 is still beta software and software is rarely beta for no good reason. Don't even THINK about running 1.6 until it leaves beta and RC stage unless you are truly desperate for the features and are willing to accept random crashes, unusual behaviour and the possibility of things changing before the final release. The company I worked for up until June this year was still selling 1.2 systems until late April because we hadn't worked through all the changes and tested things fully. If your company will depend on your phone system for customer service, don't take the risk.
Rob Hillis <rob at hillis.dyndns.org> writes:> No. No matter how good some people may tell you it is, 1.6 is still > beta software and software is rarely beta for no good reason.Tell that to Google. So far, for us, 1.6 beta is running better than any of the early 1.2 releases. Perhaps even better than early 1.4. If you need the new features in 1.6, you can go with 1.6 or you can backport. Either has disadvantages. If you can do without the 1.6 features, go with 1.4. We deploy new customers on 1.4 today, but we have one 1.6 in production and two in testing. Anyway, all that is just a long-winded way of saying: Test, test, test, and have a plan B if 1.6 fails. Oh and a thank you to Asterisk developers at Digium and elsewhere: The Asterisk development process is a lot better now than it was 2 years ago. /Benny