[asterisk-biz] PBX Functionality for Less than the Price of a KeySystem (3Com Asterisk IP Telephony Appliance)

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 05:17:09AM +0200, Trixter aka Bret McDanel wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 19:13 -0400, Steve Totaro wrote:
> > So to sum up Alex's very long winded explanation.  It is the "status
> > quo" that Jay called BS.  I guess some people are not ready for the
> > paradigm shift or they were and now want to shift if back.
> 
> I concur that it is the status quo, at least for the most part.  Gregory
> appears to also with his comment elsewhere about how its because people
> will pay it.  This largely makes me curious as to what Jay's answer is.

Jay's answer, which he thought he was quite clear about in the first
place, is that the service and reliability expectations placed upon
business telephony equipment are at least an order of magnitude higher,
if not two, than those of PCs.

Supporting this is not cheap.

Someone has to pay for it.

When was the last time you had to tell the president of the company
"Oh, sorry, your conference call is going to have to wait; we're
rebooting the phone system"?

Or, to put this another way, what do you think the food cost of that
$.99 sweet iced tea you bought at McDonalds this morning actually was?
(Hint: about 9 cents.)

Cheers,
-- jra
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