[Asterisk-biz] Marketshare of Asterisk Solutions

[Olivier Krief]

Hello,

I would be very pleased to contribute to (or lead) a collective effort 
developping Asterisk brand awareness and marketing tools for the enterprise 
market.

Here is a to-do-list we could work on :
- write a set of meaningful success stories (who ? when ? where ? how ? 
...),
- build an online directory allowing an Asterisk integrator to put a 
prospective customer in touch with an installed customer inside (or outside) 
a given region (such directory should respect everyone's privacy and a set 
of business rules towards competitors)
- organize high visibility events (for example : "synchronise Digium DS3 
card or next major Linux announcement with the largest conference call ever 
hold over the internet" so that we can demonstrate Asterisk reliability and 
scalabilty)
- design a chosen set of business cases underlining open source superiority 
over commercial call management software.

Those willing to contribute, please, do not hesitate to contact me.

Olivier KRIEF
AppliCom
olivier.krief at gmail.com

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> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 12:09:13 -0600
> From: Jason Becker <jason at coalescentsystems.ca>
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-biz] Marketshare of Asterisk Solutions -
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> To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
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> Puja Haji Abbassi wrote:
>
>>Hi again,
>>
>>to be a little bit more specific. I need specific information on for
>>example market share of asterisk solutions if possible in relation to
>>"usual" IP-PBX.
>>
>>
> /"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."
>
> - Benjamin Disraeli/
>
> I firmly believe that Asterisk will do to the PBX marketplace what Linux
> did to the UNIX marketplace. But this really is the province of
> marketing types and surveys and such and you can sample until you get
> the "right" data that will support whatever it is you want to support.
> If you still want to pursue this I'd look at the issue from say the
> perspective of estimating MySQL's marketshare and see what lessons can
> be learnt.
>
> Regards,
>
> -- 
> Jason Becker
> Director & CEO
> Coalescent Systems Inc.
> Enabling Open Source Telephony
> 403.244.8089
> www.coalescentsystems.ca
>
>
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