[Asterisk-biz] RE: Is there a pricing comparison somewhere?

[Silvio Schneider]

see bellow, inline.

> --- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ---
> Von: "Chris Mason (Lists)" <lists at masonc.com>
> An: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk
> Discussion	<asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com>
> Betreff: Re: [Asterisk-biz] RE: Is there a pricing comparison somewhere?
> Datum: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 08:14:39 -0400
> 
> 
> >In total Asterisk is not much cheaper, but it is easier to use for the
> >customer, offers more features and is mor customizable.
> >  
> >
> I don't know what you are basing this on, but I looked at implementing a 
> Zultys system before we decided on Asterisk, and the difference was 
> significant. A Zultys PBX was $13,000 and then every feature was 
> licensed by the seat. We wanted to have duplicate hardware for failure 
> proofing, and so we were at $26,000 before features. I estimated $30,000 
> for 20 seats. Two white label linux boxes with mirrored drives, two 
> channel banks off ebay, and two Sangoma A101 cards totalled about 
> $6,000. You might call that a cost savings.

I have studied some offers that I have seen from electrians whom are
installing PBXs. It is not enough to just look at one offer. Did you check
the big ones like Siemens, Alcatel, Ascom and Avaya(formaly Tenovis and
before this formaly Bosch) ?

> Phones are phones, there's no scope there. I'm amazed by your Snom 
> comment, have you used Polycoms?

Well telephony is just not the same all over the world.



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