[asterisk-biz] Brokerage Firms and Asterisk?

[Ken Rice]

And lemme guess... Its ran on opensource? hah



From: Moshe Maeir <moshe at flatplanetphone.com>
Reply-To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
<asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com>
Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 10:53:18 +0300
To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
<asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com>
Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Brokerage Firms and Asterisk?

I know a company that sells a non Asterisk, Hosted SIP solution. Their sales
pitch is
"Do you really want open source?? So some terrorist can enter your system
thru a backdoor and
take over your pbx??"

Sounds funny, but some people buy it.

Thats why I think it would be beneficial for all of us, if we could put
together a list 
of major asterisk based installations. Whenever a potential customer repeats
some of the competitions scare tactics
just refer him to that list :-)

Moshe



John Todd wrote: 
>  
> On May 3, 2009, at 6:36 PM, David Shauger wrote:
> 
>   
>  
>>  
>> We have been approached by a brokerage firm to upgrade their phone
>> system to VoIP and presented Asterisk as a solution. Our competition
>> is pushing Microsoft's system and states that Asterisk is forbidden
>> in the industry especially following last year's FBI warning.
>> Anybody have clarification on this? Hoping they are wrong.
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> David Shauger
>>     
>>  
>  
> 
> 
> David -
> Nonsense.  Ask them for documentation.  As far as I am aware, this is
> pure myth.  In fact, Digium has a partner whose primary business
> involves installing Asterisk-based systems in brokerage houses.
> 
> JT
> 
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