[asterisk-biz] Suggestion for an Asterisk Product / Service Database

[C. Savinovich]

   It is the market that creates the products and services, and it is 
the market that eventually defines the outcome of a technology. 
Uniquivocally, the best choice is always taken.  I Don't think Digium, 
as good a company as it may be, should bear any responsibilities on 
product direction.  What if someone in this forum has better ideas?

   What we have is a problem with forum etiquette.  We don't respect 
each other.  Talking about our new products and services is like 
throwing it to the lions.  Every product announced/discussed that is 
incubated by forum members is critized sometimes for reasons so minimal 
as the mail server of the poster (well, gmail/hotmail/yahoo addressess 
do look terrible, but you get my point :) ).  The only posts that cause 
possitive reactions are when someone asks for a consultant or a 
provider.  Sometimes I wonder if it is that some people hate to see 
others come out with products that compete with theirs.

CS



Steve Totaro wrote:
> Gmail - PC wrote:
>> I’ve been following this group for a while. I joined because I believe 
>> that
>> Asterisk, and the development community, needs to develop a detailed
>> understanding of the customer and their needs if it is going to 
>> deliver on
>> the full promise of open-source telephony. It is deep customer 
>> understanding
>> that drives proprietary vendors success – and we all need to develop that
>> (without access to marketing team that number in the hundreds) if we are
>> going to compete over the long term.
>>
>> It reminds me of the early days of Computer Telephony when lots of small
>> companies were doing innovative applications. Those companies proved the
>> market for some applications – and they were bought or their applications
>> copied by the proprietary vendors. Asterisk risks the same fate as the IP
>> era will be another era of experimentation followed by consolidation.
>>
>> I see people using the list to announce products or to promote their
>> products/services. It might be in all of our interests to suggest 
>> Digium set
>> up a product database so that anyone can list an Asterisk product or 
>> service
>> (or note an upgrade) and developers have a single place to search for all
>> things Asterisk. Heck there could even be some aggregated rating on a
>> variety of factors (installation, service etc) to help in the selection
>> process. A weekly update could alert people to new additions – to guide
>> their thinking and discussions with their customers.
>>
>> This suggestion might cut down on the amount of email while assuring
>> developers that their product can be promoted, found, and used by the
>> Asterisk community.
>>
>> I apologize if this has been tried and rejected – My object is to somehow
>> highlight or open source our customer insights rather than see them 
>> lost in
>> the discussion that might be better directed to a database query.
>>
>> Peter
>>
>>   
> Posting a product to the biz list is mostly futile unless it is 
> termination or something unique. I view it as a press release to the 
> Asterisk community and then I think the wiki should and does handle the 
> rest. Google is good for due dillegence as well.
> 
> Things get consolidated such as TrixBox but any opensource product will 
> fork at that point if it is active.
> 
> Thanks,
> Steve Totaro
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