[asterisk-biz] Digium, Polycom, and Netxusa Cutting Us Out?!?

[Steve Totaro]

Ignacio Ramos wrote:
> On 3/28/07, Steve Totaro <stotaro at totarotechnologies.com> wrote:
>> I hate things like this.  Why would they want to cut out the
>> VAR/Reseller/Consultant?
>>
>> I had to jump through hoops to be setup as a client of NetxUSA several
>> years ago so I could get wholesale pricing so I could make a buck or two
>> off hardware and a few more bucks off setting up that hardware.  Now
>> those dollars will not come my way.  I don't know if I can stomach the
>> way this is starting to go.  This line really gets me, "With regional
>> distribution offices and in-house certified engineers, NETXUSA assists
>> business customers with the entire Digium-Polycom implementation."  I
>> thought that was my job!
>
>
> How come you didn't see this coming, everything in technology ends up
> being a commodity. Your business plan and strategy is like putting
> regional distribution and certified engineers in the .com bubble. Voip
> is a bubble only if there are business plans like yours. Didn't you
> learned anything in the Youtube business?
>
Good luck with that business plan.  3com and Cisco know better.  Digium 
will learn soon enough.

Thanks,
Steve