asterisk users - Apr 2005 - RE: Number of production asterisk systems (Christopher Jacob)

Chrisopher Jacob wrote,
> What I am trying to do is track down a rough idea of how many Asterisk
> systems are in production right now. Ideally as this information was
> gathered it could be sorted by country, state, industry, etc.
> Does anyone have any information, or any idea of where to start? Any
of the
> Digium guys on this list know if Digium attempts to track this sort of
> information?
Now that's a challenge..ok so define 'production' - I take that as
installed in a business evironment with more than 10 users, and taking
that definition and a wide stab in the dark, I bet theres no more than
50-100 production systems here in the UK. I base this guess on nothing
more than the number of units sold by one of the key 'installers' plus
how aware 'comms professionals' aka died in the wool Avaya/Lucent guys
are of the product (not very!). I'm also expecing that not that many
companies with 10+ users have run up their own boxes from scratch, but I
bet there are a few, especially if they are linux hounds. 

In terms of finding out true factual data, in terms of reference perhaps
digium would share market data (but then they might not!) and we could
extrapolate from there, but given how much of a community is building up
around the product I would suggest some form of "self-registration".
i.e. you/someone sets up a webpage and then users are encourage to
'register' their systems on this web page, I guess with basic data such
as Country, Company, Industry, Location, Number of Sites, Number of
Users, usual daily call volume, gives us the basic metrics. Contact
information could be added for reference which might be of use.

HTH
Greg

Greg Eaton
Product Development Director
Intelicoms
www.intelicoms.co.uk

On Thursday 28 April 2005 1:52 pm, Greg Eaton wrote:
...
> In terms of finding out true factual data, in terms of reference perhaps
> digium would share market data (but then they might not!) and we could
> extrapolate from there, but given how much of a community is building up
> around the product I would suggest some form of
"self-registration".
> i.e. you/someone sets up a webpage and then users are encourage to
> 'register' their systems on this web page, I guess with basic data
such
> as Country, Company, Industry, Location, Number of Sites, Number of
> Users, usual daily call volume, gives us the basic metrics. Contact
> information could be added for reference which might be of use.
I just put together a small production survey form on a mysql database using 
the fields you mentioned and put it on my R&D server. 

I'd encourage everyone to do as Greg suggested and register your system 
install at: 

http://207.40.85.50/production_survey.cgi

The data from the survey is freely available upon request. I'll try to put 
together a web interface to view the db when i have a few more free hours.

Let me know if anyone has any trouble accessing the script or has any 
suggestions to make the survey better.

Note:
Its a non-mod_perl script (just 96 lines of quickly written perl code using 
HTML::Template) running on  a MySQL database. It uses Randal Schwartz's 
technique to limit instances of CGI scripts from his 2000 column at 
http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/WebTechniques/col54.html.

Anyway, all that just to say be nice and dont melt my serves. :-) 

-- 
Josiah Bryan
IT Coordinator
Productive Concepts, Inc.
jbryan@productiveconcepts.com
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