[Asterisk-biz] Peggy PBX and Asterisk

[alex at pilosoft.com]

On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, Alex Pui wrote:

> I don't think the box is the same as traditional PBX, it is an IP-PBX, a
> competition to Asterisk and that will steal the supporter like Dan from
> Asterisk. We don't have to assume him to be the promoter of Peggy, we
> have to listen and to learn how to fight back, and not to ask him to go
> away.
We listen, fight back *and* tell him to spout drivel elsewhere.

> This is a business forum, we must make business sense, if this box is
> much easier to handle like Dan has experienced here (I have no way to
> endorse his experience as I have not played with that before, but
> certainly I will try) and they are cheaper, than we would understand
> that Idiom's configuration package ($750 for the 15 extension
> configuration not to include any hardware?) have a hurdle to pass. We
> have not made Asterisk easy enough for everybody and we can't cross the
> chasm to mainstream market.
It isn't impossible to make a asterisk-running-box in that pricerange.

> Of course, if there is no intention to build Asterisk for the main
> stream, and everybody here is not going to make money from Asterisk,
> sorry, may be we should change this forum to Asterisk-visions so we
> don't have diversified thing to say, everybody will then come to here
> only to cheer Asterisk.
Asterisk is not a end-user product. It never was intended to be. There are 
people who sell asterisk-based solutions, and they decide the price-range 
they want to sell it at. I doubt they consider Epigy or whatever as a 
threat.

-alex