Skype vs Ekiga vs hardware sip phones

[Christopher Chan]

Amedee Van Gasse (Ubuntu) wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2009 20:50, H.S. wrote:
>
>   
>> At present, the main argument people make in favor of Skype is "oh,
>> everyone else is using it", as you did. Perhaps you can show some
>> enlightening leadership to your friends and nears ones to convince them of
>> the inherent problems with Skype and to try other alternatives?
>>     
>
> To be honest, I hardly know anyone who uses Skype or Ekiga or anything
> else. And I work in IT. I think that the Skype-hype is over.
>   
You need to be around business people more then. I personally do not use 
skype but I get the impression that all the other people here in the 
school use skype (I am the only IT personnel here) and in my previous 
job at Oerlikon (big global technology group), skype was big and there 
was a lot of screaming and wailing when the German IT heads firewalled 
skype.

> However I really know a lot of people who use VoIP with IP phones that
> look like regular phones, with the services of SIP telco operators that
> are similar to the traditional telco operators.
>   
Or regular phones with a sip box.

> Some of the more advanced users run their own Asterix, but most of them
> just plug in the phone in a free port on their router, enter phone number,
> sip-server and password, and they can start calling. Some SIP operators
> even sell preconfigured IP phones.
>
> Technology is at its best when it "just works". :-)
>
>   


For the user yeah...I hope the school does not get a cisco ip phone 
solution. If they do, I hope Cisco won't go the way Nortel did. Can't 
get it through their heads that a blooming company don't mean it's 
eternal...now asterisk...that's eternal with multiple possible support 
choices should I get hit by a bus. BTW, I corrected your subject header :P