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> Asterisk is completely scriptable.

I'm absolutely positive Asterisk is better than Toshiba in that regard. I've invented some absolutely hideous hacks to get Toshiba systems do complicated call flow. But for a minuscule office with less than 8 phones, say a chiropractor or hand made guitar manufacturer, Toshiba does the basics, does it well, and is much easier to install. The systems don't do much, but they do it well. The pbx can hang in a damp and dirty location for years and still work. Internet service here is too unreliable to have a hosting solution or sip trunks, unless you want to pay AT&T thousands a month. The wiring can be 50 year old 25 pair, and the phones work fine. Businesses don't want to switch to ip phones since they don't have the cabling infrastructure for it.