As far as I am aware grand central was cool a year ago but slowly faded in to obscurity. Asterisk can be as powerful as a stealth bomber or cripled to the level of a yugo all depending on the end user. I did a presentation a few months ago the slides are on postug.com. As far as features go the answer to most "can it" questions are yes. I personaly have ubuntu 8.04 running asterisk 1.4.21 with inbound termination from two providers and outbound through a few other providers which allows me to basicly have full phone service as well as toy phone numbers for a few bucks a month. My inbound calls are automaticly screened through public databases for undesired callers like telemarketers etc and said folks are transfered to a robot that sounds like a senile old man. I can tell you asterisk is awesome but I have thousands of hours behind the wheel and I am able to make asterisk contort as a result. A new user should expect a lot of lost hair. I recomend getting a copy of the book "asterisk the future of telephony" I know 2 of the 3 authors and they do an awesome job. Let me know what you are looking for and how much effort you want to put in I will give you some recomendations. If you want an asterisk consultant I do believe JD Austin is doing just that which is an option if you want asterisk without the learning curve. On 1/19/09, Kurt Granroth wrote: > I know that there are some people on this list that use Asterisk a > decent bit. Those that do... are you familiar with GrandCentral? If > so, how do they compare? > > http://www.grandcentral.com/home/features > > I really like the control that something like GrandCentral gives you. > The ability to choose where you receive a call (home, cell, work, etc) > based on who is calling or when they are calling is a killer feature for me. > > Alas, there are just too many potential gotchas with that service to > really commit to it other than as a play-thing (or as a number passed > out freely to businesses and warranty cards and the like). What I would > like is that kind of control... but in a way that *I* control it all! > > So no calls being routed through a 3rd party server; no voicemails > stored on their server; no need to upload all of my contacts to a search > company; etc. > > Asterisk seems like it might be able to do all that... but who can tell? > Their site is horribly disorganized and when you do find a "feature" > page, they spend all their time in an acronym frenzy. > > So... does anybody know? > > Kurt > > -- Sent from my mobile device James Finstrom Rhino Equipment Corp. http://rhinoequipment.com ~ http://postug.com Phone: 1-877-RHINO-T1 ~ FAX: +1 (480) 961-1826 Twitter: http://twitter.com/rhinoequipment IP: guest@asterisk.rhinoequipment.com --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss