Re: [Bayonne-devel] web article about Bayonne

[Ambar Roy]

> I wrote an introduction to Bayonne and IVR services for the web megazine
> linuxfocus (http://www.linuxfocus.org)
>
> it's in english:
http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/April2005/article372.shtml
>
> and italian: http://www.linuxfocus.org/Italiano/April2005/article372.shtml
>
> the goal is, of course, to promote Bayonne's use in phone services
Hi Luca,

I read the english version. Excellent Article!

I have been evaluating bayonne for some time and here are some reasons why I
am not being over enthausistic about using bayonne in production
environments:

a. I hardly see any developer activity on bayonne. I have been a member of
bayonne-devel list for some time now and the message traffic is almost non
existant.

b. I have seen that most people's queries on bayonne seem to go un-answered.

c. I do not see any real community behind bayonne. I have been a member of
this list for the past 3 months and the only active members seem to be
yourself, David and Julien. What happened to everyone else?

d. I have no clue as to how stable is bayonne's connectivity to telephone
networks via E1 links using PRI, R2 & C7/SS7 when using dialogic telephony
boards.

e. What all features are available from the native scripting language used
in bayonne.

f. No real description of successful implementation of bayonne in telecom
networks beyond "We are using bayonne!" or "We have successfully implemented
bayonne!"

g. Is there any form of commercial support available for bayonne? Is it
possible that, if required, i can find people/companies who are willing to
work on getting rid of bugs or to implement new features for a fee?

My company deploys high density IVR systems at telcos and currently we use a
proprietory platform for IVR systems. I have been trying to figure out if
bayonne is even a viable alternative to our current system! Our current
platform may be expensive and proprietory, but our vendor gives us excellent
support. Whenever we have faced any problems, our vendors have helped us big
time. I have never really felt confident about what would happen if I face
problems in a production environment. I have been following the bayonne
project for more than 1.5 years now, and I hardly see any activity. The
bayonne home pages are also not with any recent news. The bayonne.sf.net
page's latest news is from 27th Feb 2004 and on www.gnu.org/software/bayonne
the latest news item is from 2003-07-06!

I really think that the bayonne project has not done much to attract people
who might be intrested in deploying bayonne in production environments. Luca
is doing a great job here, but we probably need more people doing similar
activity. Google tends to only turn up old articles on bayonne :-(

Ambar Roy
PS: Luca bayonne.sourceforge.org does not lead to the bayonne page. It is
bayonne.sourceforge.net or bayonne.sf.net ;-)