Colin Anderson wrote:
The CTO is highly unlikely to know or care about the low level technology
decisions. It isn't something that bubbles up to his level or pay
grade.
Unless it's presented to him as a means of doing something faster, better, more cheaply, better interop etc. Isn't that the value proposition in Asterisk? Maybe not to the CTO, but the CTO's underling, the second level manager. Presumably, this guy would have the CTO's ear.
I read an article about CN Rail in Canada which is kind of like Amtrack in
the US. They had Linux trickle in as replacements for DNS servers running
Solaris, I think. Something they paid big bucks for. It was goofy, because
BIND is BIND, right? The biggest resistance was convincing the suits that
this Linux thing wasn't a scam and offered the same featureset and
reliability that Solaris did. Eventually what happened is that the suits
looked around and found out that BIND-Linux was the preferred means of DNS
for the Net, and all of a sudden it was legitimized for them. They started
out with DNS, and eventually they migrated wholesale to Linux.
Hee Hee Hee. The " I read about Linux in Golf Digest syndrom" :-)
It's the same old problem. Technical people rarely speak Business-eeezzz. As a result technology has toI see the same thing in the Asterisk context. Mark builds a killer platform. The geeks go into convulsions of ectasy. They evangelize. The userbase builds. Slashdot lusers pester you with questions. You answer, they figure out sip.conf, and then they evangelize. More lusers come along and pester. You answer, with the patience of Job, then they evengelize. Eventually, a mainstream effect comes into play, and the platform starts to get mainstream acceptance. Hopefully, CTO of XYZ sees an article in the Wall Street Journal (more legitimate than Wired? Depends.) about this thing, and calls up his batman and says "Find out about this thing" and then at that point Mark can finally afford his hot tub. (whatever happened to that anyway?)
hit main stream before someone can wrap the business language around it so decision makers understand
the value.
Sorry about the math. Duh.
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