[asterisk-biz] View from a side competitor

Tue Feb 20 17:35:02 MST 2007

Interesting, You can always go to www.trixbox.org
<http://www.trixbox.org/>  and get it free.

Cheers,

Derrick

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From: asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Mike
Lynchfield
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 4:27 PM
To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] View from a side competitor

out of the loop on this one.. but mainly i think upgrades and support is
2 things.
as well as modules and upgrades...

so basically 
UPGRADES is a mean to add functionallity.. ( upgrade your car by putting
a new motor block..) THIS NEEDS CASH 
UPDATES is a way to FIX things on a earlier version and SHOULD BE FREE
one who make you pay for updates is a SCAM/THIEF
SUPPORT should be either included in price and SAID SO or simply an ADD
ON to a product...per month per year etc etc..AGAIN CASH 
INSTALL should be included in a "CUSTOM MADE" software you buy .. yes
some companies will devel software and stil lcharge an install fee...
another scam

what we see in this and other software industries is companies
capitalizing on updates.. 
you notice that winamp UPDATES every week.. this is to #1 SCAM ALL SOFT
SEO's into pushing the products back up a list.. (bumping) etc.. so now
you get software devels. changing revisions every week to get seen on
the  market .. alot of these around. 

Again another approach they have is simply MAJOR revisioning software
for the sole purpose of getting to your wallet..

EX V1.01 skin A , then major upgrade to V2.00 with nothing new then a
fancy skin... 
Another scam... basically ask for the .diff in fieatures before falling
for this...

On 2/20/07, Derrick Moennick < derrick at phonesource.ca
<mailto:derrick at phonesource.ca> > wrote:
Craig,

Like support? Continual upgrades to the software package, the ability to

upgrade to the next package for the difference in price?

Derrick

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[mailto: asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Craig
Lawrence
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 2:08 PM
To: 'Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion' 
Subject: RE: [asterisk-biz] View from a side competitor

We purchased a copy of Switchvox almost 2 years ago with the intention
of
being a reseller however we found that there wasn't really any support 
for a
channel, as such. As a result the software has never been used.

We recently went back to see if things had changed. We explained that we
would had been waiting for Switchvox to get organized and support 
resellers.
So when we asked for an upgrade to the most recent version we were
surprised
to be told we'd need to pay full price to upgrade. So we've concluded
that
nothing's really changed.

My point is that it's not the GUI's features or the cost that are the
main
issue here. There are other things that you need and expect if you're
planning to resell someone else's product.

IMHO

Craig Lawrence

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asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Steve Totaro
Sent: Wednesday, 21 February 2007 8:40 AM
To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] View from a side competitor 

It would be cool to see a point by point comparison article written by a

third party.  I am not volunteering, just think it would be cool.

Thanks,
Steve

Paul wrote:
> I think the thread went in a fonality-centered direction. General 
> discussion about partner/reseller programs is always interesting here.
>
> Bill Michaelson wrote:
>
>
>> The thread is going where participants take it.  I didn't mean to
>> start trouble.  I just thought it would be interesting to see all 
this
>> stuff out in the open - if anyone wanted to contribute (or not).
>> asterisk-biz, right?
>>
>> Kim C. Callis wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I guess Fonality was the start, but there is nothing wrong with a 
>>> general overview of some of the programs available...
>>>
>>> K
>>>
>>> On 2/19/07, *Paul* < ast2005 at 9ux.com <mailto: ast2005 at 9ux.com>>
wrote:
>>>
>>>     Is this discussion about partner programs in general or
specifically
>>>     about Fonality's program? Where is this thread going? 
>>>
>>>

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