The fact that 3com and Dell are entering this space with open source means that this space will be huge!
How we all do along side these companies depends on us. Derrick Moennick Phonesource Communications Ltd. Canadian home of the award winning PBXtra IP Phone system PBXtra was named Editor's Choice in PC Magazine Sept. 2007 Vancouver 604-628-1764, ext 7008 Calgary 403-668-7077, ext 7008 Toronto 416-907-4941, ext 7008 FAX 866-363-4071 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Trixter aka Bret McDanel Sent: January 23, 2008 11:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Fonality Teams with Dell On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 13:53 -0500, Matthew Rubenstein wrote: > I wonder what the Dell and 3Com marketing campaigns will do to improve > the ability of independent Asterisk vendors to sell into the market they > educate. Just being able to point to Dell and 3Com validating the > platform could help close some sales. And offering to mitigate risks by > saying "at worst, you can just switch to a Dell or 3Com product without > throwing out all the independent Asterisk work we've done for you" could > help close some deals. One could argue that the deals between digium and these companies actually shoots the people who have made digium as popular and available as it is. One could also argue that digium going into the consulting business does the same thing. The consultants, the very people that have pushed digium products onto unknowing people, are being put in a position where its harder for them to compete, and I wonder if that is going to cause some attrition ... > > Of course, these two big wealthy competitors can be hard to compete > with, but in the early stages of forming a market and educating it, all > the competitors cooperate to grow the market and make it easier to > reach. The only way is through value added stuff, customizations and service. -- Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com Bret McDanel Belfast +44 28 9099 6461 US +1 516 687 5200 http://www.trxtel.com the phone company that pays you! _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
