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

[Craig Lawrence]

Isn't the IBM and 3Com tie-up similar to Digium | Asterisk doing a deal with
Dell/Polycom to release an option for AsteriskNOW to be preinstalled on a
virtualized partition of a 1950/2950?

 

So, if the guy over the street (3Com) is already doing something similar how
can we be critical of Digium?

 

See IBM/3Com info
http://www.techworld.com/networking/news/index.cfm?newsID=8375
<http://www.techworld.com/networking/news/index.cfm?newsID=8375&pagtype=all>
&pagtype=all

 

Cheers

 

Craig Lawrence

 

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From: Dean Collins [mailto:Dean at cognation.net] 
Sent: Sunday, 1 April 2007 11:30 AM
To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
Cc: craig at mytel.net.au
Subject: RE: [asterisk-biz] Digium, Polycom, and Netxusa Cutting Us Out?!?

 

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
 <mailto:dean at cognation.net> 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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