Lol thanks Craig - but sorry Jeff Pulver is a legend and way out of my league.
I do however agree with you on the following; * Proliferation of Asterisk appliances (even some with some neat twists...... :-) - and nope not telling) * That commercialization of 'minor' asterisk add-ons will finally be 'acceptable' to the Asterisk community (yes even the open source diehards will finally see that paying your mortgage isn't a bad thing). * That voice driven application mashups will become more acceptable (naturally building opportunities for smart Asterisk and Adhearsion developers - because lets face it the dialogic side of the voice world aren't building anything special). I'm about to post to my blog next week my top 8 predictions for 2008 so check it out at www.collins.net.pr/blog on Monday the 7th but nope I don't blog for commercial reasons, just happy to highlight cool things I come across (still editing down my end of year letter so not sure how many of the 8 will be voice related but should be at least 1 or 2 in there for sure). Regards, Dean Collins Cognation Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +1-212-203-4357 Ph +61-2-9016-5642 (Sydney in-dial). ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Craig Lawrence Sent: Wednesday, 2 January 2008 9:40 PM To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion Subject: [asterisk-biz] 2008 Predictions I must admit my predictions for 2007 were not all that accurate. I didn't predict that Digium would buy Switchvox or that the guys would do a deal with 3Com. I did manage to predict that asterisk appliances would proliferate and that some high profile services would consolidate - but you don't need to be related to Nostradamus to have picked those. My 2008 guesses are looking equally as inaccurate as 2007 - they include:- - Another successful year for Digium which could see a further Venture Capital injection and announcement that NASDAQ is within their sights - A high profile senior engineer from Cisco / Nortel / Avaya joins Digium adding market credibility - Mark Spencer puts a deposit on a Malibu house and draws up plans to build a Bill Gates style mansion - Trixbox releases a real appliance - 3Com sells their 1,000th Digium Appliance - Dean Collins produces a BLOG that rivals Geoff Pulver's and releases his top 100 VoIP prospects list on www.100collins.com <http://www.100collins.com/> ;-) So what do you folks think we'll see in 2008? Cheers Craig Lawrence Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.486 / Virus Database: 269.16.14/1172 - Release Date: 05/12/2007 8:41 AM ************************************************************** Scanned by eScan Anti-Virus and Content Security Software. Visit http://www.mwti.net for more info on eScan and MailScan. **************************************************************
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