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

[Dean Collins]

Hi Craig,

Excellent insight, Exchange 2007 and MS Live Communication Server 2007
(beta released last week) is certainly changing the 'plug and play'
expectation of voice decision makers. And whilst a lot of naysayer's out
there are going to say MS wont get it right - sure I agree with you,
however Microsoft only/always take until Version 3.0 to get it right and
this round of technology (including the Response Technology hardware) is
already Version 2.0 so within the next 18-24 months, voice will be
nothing more than a downloadable module in Microsoft Office 2009.

 

(as for Digium and all the Asterisk system integrators - that's all
cool, we just need to be ahead of the curve and developing advanced
applications that keep us ahead of Microsoft like the current
Firefox/Internet Explorer battles)

 

Regards,

Dean Collins
Cognation Pty Ltd
dean at cognation.net
<mailto:dean at cognation.net> +1-212-203-4357 Ph
+1-917-207-3420 Mb
+61-2-9016-5642 (Sydney in-dial).

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From: asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Craig
Lawrence
Sent: Saturday, 31 March 2007 8:53 PM
To: 'Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion'
Subject: RE: [asterisk-biz] Digium, Polycom, and Netxusa Cutting Us
Out?!?

 

If you assume:

 

- MS Exchange (or something of a similar name) will eventually include a
PBX server as part of the many optional configurations choices (it may
require a special license or upgrade for a short while and then become a
free option subject to competitive forces); and

- Asterisk will be going head-to-head against this product with an
interface such as the 'early' yet promising AsteriskNOW interface.

 

Then the main target market for VoIP installs will probably be your
in-house network admin guy, not the external provider/consultant.

 

Perhaps as VoIP evolves and becomes mainstream part of this evolution is
to remove the need for an external consultant in many cases other than
the complex deployments.

 

So perhaps it's not the vendors cutting integrators out of the less
complex installs, perhaps it's the market itself that's evolving.

 

Cheers

 

Craig Lawrence

 

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