IT was the part about hardware costing about a $1,000. I am sure you realize the inquiry was for the software but still went about your way.
A lot of other open source software - JBoss, MySQL, SugarCRM - works great out of the box. They also result in significant savings over their competition (Websphere, Oracle, Siebel). That's the FOSS business model which I believe is true in spirit, and the one we see in database, OS, App Servers, CRM areas. The software is free, the support costs. By using JBoss, MySQL and SugarCRM, we managed a 24x7 call centre based Insurance company with 0 support personnel. The whole insurance ERP was built using open source components, and it ran on Linux + mysql + jboss just as fine as it would have on Windows + sql server + Web sphere (our development environment). The point is - open source does not mean broken. It does not mean weak. It does not mean nightmares. And you all seem to imply that the underlying Asterisk is broken, weak and unreliable, and spending hundreds of $ per user is a must to have a reliable system. Anyways, I am a poor engineer from a poor country. Linus Torvalds (and Mark Spencer?) is our hero. It's 5 in the morning. FC4+Asterisk+freepbx+FOP seems to work for now. It was good weekend discussion. Let's get back to business. Farzal -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kristian Kielhofner Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2006 1:52 AM To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] out of the box PBX Farzal Dojki wrote: > Dear Kristian, please save your insults for some other forum. I had only > asked for software license + support (if possible). And my 2nd entry was an > open question hoping for honest answer. > > That's to Mr. Mitul Limbani response, I have an idea what's going on in the > market from 'business' perspective. It seems the base system is able to > support that number of users. Many companies just have their business models > built around the # users that will use the system. > > But plenty of vendors exist out there whose SMB software will cost below > $1000, which I guess would be our new price ceiling instead of $500. > > And we will of course continue to play with core asterisk and one day hope > to go 100% free. We, in fact, are a PBX reseller. > > Thanks everyone, > > Farzal > Farzal, I'm sorry if anything that I wrote seemed like an insult. I can assure you that I didn't intend to insult your, your business, or anyone else. Either way, I'm glad that you have learned a little bit about the economics and business model of FOSS. I wish you the best of luck in finding the solution you are looking for. -- Kristian Kielhofner _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
