[asterisk-biz] KSU Killers??

[Tim Booth]

Touch screen..nice! Never crossed my mind.

Steve Totaro wrote:
> If it is a very nice office, give her a touch screen LCD with FOP.  She 
> will love it.  Not only will she know who is on the phone but who they 
> are talking to and for how long.  She can also transfer calls by sliding 
> her finger.  She may not like this at first but I think it will grow on 
> her and will certainly be a whiz-bang feature to show the directors.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
>
> PS.  The term "she" is very sexist and I apologize in advance if anyone 
> is offended.  I just hate typing he/she or receptionist.
>
> Tim Booth wrote:
>   
>> I agree winning over the secretary is half the battle. But when she has 
>> 8 trunks that use to have leds that flashed green and red it certainly 
>> made for sense.
>>
>> Steve Totaro wrote:
>>     
>>> It is usually the secretary that hates it, hates you, and hates the 
>>> system.  People do not like change and since the secretary is the one 
>>> most impacted, they are almost always the one you have to win over.
>>>
>>> No director of anything wants to hear whining from their secretaries day 
>>> in and day out.
>>>
>>> Once they get used to it, it becomes second hat.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Steve Totaro
>>>
>>>
>>> Tim Booth wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> You have it flipped shadowym, it's the small businesses with a few lines 
>>>> that a screaming for SLA to work with Asterisk.
>>>> That's my exact reasoning for keeping a small key system to resell. 
>>>> Large pbx customers are use to parking calls, small businesses hate 
>>>> parking calls.
>>>>
>>>> shadowym wrote:
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>>>> Only if people WANT it which is the critical point you seem to be missing.
>>>>> Yes, SLA does not scale but a business with only a few lines doesn't care.
>>>>> They just want it.  There is also SCA which DOES scale and is used all the
>>>>> time by large organizations to group extensions.  Not the same as call queue
>>>>> or call parking btw.
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: Rick [mailto:rick at rickrinehart.com] 
>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 7:27 PM
>>>>> To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
>>>>> Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] KSU Killers??
>>>>>
>>>>> thx Dean,
>>>>>
>>>>> i thought i was really missing something that would cause a business to 
>>>>> purchase 4 line phones for each desk so the first few lines could be 
>>>>> unavailable whenever someone in the building was 'on the phone'
>>>>>
>>>>> several of my neighbors have toyota prius, i guess i won't purchase one 
>>>>> until the dealer can attach '57 chrysler fins to the back of it... 8*)
>>>>>
>>>>> -rick
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>>> It's simply old dog new tricks, people are used to it and want it that
>>>>>> way.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Lol I know of one guy who refused for 10 years to through out an old
>>>>>> fujitsu box because of 1 function that it did and nothing would change
>>>>>> his mind.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Dean Collins
>>>>>> Cognation Pty Ltd
>>>>>> dean at cognation.net
>>>>>> +1-212-203-4357 Ph
>>>>>> +61-2-9016-5642 (Sydney in-dial).
>>>>>>
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