[Asterisk-biz] Request For Bid from the Town of Manchester, Connecticut

[Deon Rodden]

I didn't mean it as sarcastic as it sounds. I can certainly break out my
laptop and setup its mail client to check my work email and to print to my
work printer and then print out the forms. But it'd be easier if you had
sent it in a standard format such as pdf or something. 

If I didn't have my laptop, or we were a no-windows only company, wouldn't
it make it impossible for us to view/accept this offer? Even if we happened
to be the cheapest or best service around? Not saying we are, but just
saying you limit the amount of bids you can receive by limiting the platform
of the people who can see the paperwork. Not just Linux, but Mac users as
well.

Anyways, don't want to start a flame war of Windows vs Linux vs Macs, etc. I
will send your proposals in to the right department, I'm a tech and not
sales. We may be interested. Thank you for considering using Asterisk, this
PBX is awesome and getting better daily. Getting Asterisk into a government
position only helps strengthen it. 

Our company has personally sold 2 cities already. We have fire stations,
water utilities, city hall, etc. linked via Cisco 7960's w/ SIP firmware and
an Asterisk server running across 2 dedicated data T1's. The only concern is
with 911, luckily in the 2 cities we setup/support, the fire stations and
police stations have a completely separate phone system/lines for the 911
thing. The phones we provide are for inter-city communication and standard
outbound calls. 

-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Scott Lykens
Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 9:36 AM
To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-biz] Request For Bid from the Town of
Manchester,Connecticut

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 09:16:57 -0400, Deon Rodden <drodden at webunited.net>
wrote:

> This offer is only good for Windows users?

I certainly hope this is not an attitude you display towards your
customers when they desire to use Windows on the desktop.

Further, if the effort required to extract the information is more
than you are willing to expend perhaps the offer isn't for you anyway.

I don't mean to flame but I just don't get the purpose of trolling
someone who is offering a legitimate (government) business opportunity
to a community without large corporate sponsorship. The OP could have
just ignored the * community and focused on Cisco, Nortel, Avaya, and
3Com for IP telephony solutions.
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