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I am an IT manager for a mid sized publishing company and we just replaced our phone system. We looked at both IP based and traditional PBXs. We went with the traditional PBX with an IP gateway. It did not make sense to abandon the investment in phone wiring and complicate our data network at the same time. Keeping the two separate but connected reduces points of failure and allowed us to leverage a very proven technology. The only parts of the install that were difficult were with the IP side of the system. The traditional PBX side went off with out a hitch. The vendors are experienced and the tools are proven. For a company with out a dedicated telcom department and a simple network plan the traditional phone systems made the most sense.

That's really a good idea. Technically, I don't think it would be that hard (digitize the audio as it comes in, burn a single master at the end of the show and then let the CD replicators churn), and I have a feeling that Clear Channel is paying the RIAA their piece, too, so there shouldn't be any legal problems.

Of course, after the $5 beers and $35 t-shirts, most concert-goers are dead broke by the end of the show...

we are using MacSea which has all the scanned in charts for charting/plotting - works about as good as the windows packages. we feed it with many sources of data - gps/dgps, gyro, flux gayes, loran-C so we notice when DoD plays with GPS accuracy ;-) we are still researching data collection software doug