[Asterisk-biz] Asterisk for small businesses.

[Grant Cheeseman]

Peter,

I am presently analyzing a similar thought process, I am part of a Telecom
Billing & customer care software business with development resources. We are
looking to expand into the VOIP market and ideally would lend much expertise
to the billing portion. Feel free to call me if you would like to discuss in
more detail.

Grant
604-970-6269

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Bowyer" <peeebeee at gmail.com>
To: "Mike Dent" <mcdent at gmail.com>; "Commercial and Business-Oriented
Asterisk Discussion" <asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 4:07 AM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-biz] Asterisk for small businesses.


> Mike
>
> We are embarking on a related project, I wonder if there's an
> opportunity to collaborate?
>
> 'We' means a group of experienced software and integration
> consultants, one of whom runs a small manufacturing facility. Our
> skills are in Linux, networking and VoIP. We've collaborated before on
> a number of projects, one of which was a cross-border VoIP
> implementation for a multi-national transport business. We have IP
> hosting and software development facilities.
>
> Our very skeletal plan is to produce customised hardware (appliance)
> to run Asterisk, suitable for the SoHo market; run an centralised
> softswitch with DIDs and LCR PSTN origination, tied together with a
> 'control panel' billing/config portal.
>
> We'd need an army of people to implement and support this, and the
> independent consultant is very much the right sort of person for the
> job.
>
> It's early days.. what do you think?
>
> Peter
>
>
> On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 11:52:23 +0000, Mike Dent <mcdent at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I'm looking in to the possibility of starting to sell a small Asterisk
> > installation in to one or two small businesses to test the waters in
> > my area, north west UK.
> >
> > Are others doing similar things on a small scale? I currently do not
> > have a lot of investment to  plough in to this business at the moment
> > so things would have to be done within my
> > current financial constraints.
> > I have a full time job at present which I plan to leave in  months
> > time if all goes to plan.
> >
> > Now I realise people are not going to disclose their business winning
> > secrets but I'd welcome any friendly advise from others who have done
> > this or are doing it at present.
> >
> > (I have linux/unix experience going back to 1992 but only about 3
> > months * experience,
> > with a server at home running 2 analogue lines and 4 extensions.)
> >
> > Many thanks
> >
> > Mike
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