Cisco Unity has moved to Red Hat. I do not understand what the discussion is. In Canada we do not have enterprise companies. Most vendors scale back the numbers to make Canadian companies feel good. For example in Canada a 150 seat company is enterprise and in the US it still a medium business.
Open source has many developers working on the same software on their own time. Commercial software pays many developers focusing in their own stuff. Open source and commercial solutions both achieve the same results coming from different ends. Businesses are starting to realize this, and the time is now to promote it. Alexander J Perovich Computer Solutions Professional Think Simplicity Ltd. (Computer Technology Solutions Company) AtlasVoice (Voice Over IP Solutions for home and business) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 416-907-8041 x401 making tech - logical -----Original Message----- From: David Cook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 4:38 PM To: Stephen Remillard Cc: Toronto Asterisk Business Group Subject: Re: [biz] Does open source telephony need an advertising campaign? Big companies use open source all the time. They just don't make it known. The Avaya S8700 platform (big ass call-centre switch with up to 72,000 end points) uses Red Hat Linux under the covers. dbc. -- David Cook Quoting Stephen Remillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The problem I have here is to find serious case studies or > testimonials > of big company names > that successfully deployed Asterisk in a decent size production > environment. > The CEOs & CFOs (at least where I work) see the OpenSource factor as > a > problem rather > than an asset. They are afraid of trusting something developed by > hobbyists unless > major companies (i.e fortune 500) trust it first. > > If someone here has links that can demonstrate some case > studies/testimonials corresponding > to the above, please send them to me. Otherwise I'll be stuck with a > Nortel BCM. > > Stephen... > > > On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 12:02 -0400, Alex @ Kovasys Inc. wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > As with everything it takes time for a product to become recognized > > between masses. > > > > The way it is going right now, I think it will evolve on its own. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
