[Asterisk-biz] Asterisk for small businesses.

[Roger Hanson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Van Meggelen" <jim at vanmeggelen.ca>
To: "'Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion'" 
<asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2005 8:44 PM
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-biz] Asterisk for small businesses.


> asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com wrote:
>> I've been enjoying this thread tremendously.
>
>> Another way to gain leverage into the small business space is to have
>> quality sales and marketing materials - on paper - stuff that makes 
>> it
>
>> to the PHB - something that tells the story in as simple a way as
>> possible. Brochures - basically one the tools provided by vendors 
>> that
>
>> had a strong var channel in the 80s (Novell, Altos)...
>>
>> we could get higher quality repeatable sales by open sourcing and
>> sharing in the cost of creation of these materials...
>
> Hmmm . . . That's a creative idea. Gotta let that one percolate . . .
>
>> I have also really looked in awe at the success of the spreadfirefox
>> campaign.
>
> Fuelled by similar motives as open-source telephony.
>
>> and while we are all in competition with each other, the real
>> competition is the Nortels, the AT&Ts, and the like, so forming an
>> association of VARs make sense, whether it be informal - as today - 
>> or
>
>> formal - as in some sort of non-profit -
>
> I heard the term "co-opetition" recently. An interesting concept.
>

co-opetition  -   that's a DW word he invented last Saturday at the Bud 
shootout, isn't it?