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software or hardware manufacturer, who gives a differentiated condition to a single company, is simply shooting their own feet. The biggest issue is how this works with an open source developer like Digium? What are their revenue models? Are we partners or competitors? The "open source manufacturer model" is new, confuse and cannot be compared to the traditional suppliers like Cisco and 3Com. Some of us are getting a good money with Asterisk without giving much back to Digium. Am I wrong?</SPAN></P>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">----- Mensagem original ----<BR>De: Steve Totaro <stotaro@totarotechnologies.com><BR>Para: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion <asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com><BR>Enviadas: Quarta-feira, 28 de Março de 2007 19:44:53<BR>Assunto: Re: [asterisk-biz] Digium, Polycom, and Netxusa Cutting Us Out?!?<BR><BR>
<DIV>Ignacio Ramos wrote:<BR>> On 3/28/07, Steve Totaro <stotaro@totarotechnologies.com> wrote:<BR>>> I hate things like this. Why would they want to cut out the<BR>>> VAR/Reseller/Consultant?<BR>>><BR>>> I had to jump through hoops to be setup as a client of NetxUSA several<BR>>> years ago so I could get wholesale pricing so I could make a buck or two<BR>>> off hardware and a few more bucks off setting up that hardware. Now<BR>>> those dollars will not come my way. I don't know if I can stomach the<BR>>> way this is starting to go. This line really gets me, "With regional<BR>>> distribution offices and in-house certified engineers, NETXUSA assists<BR>>> business customers with the entire Digium-Polycom implementation." I<BR>>> thought that was my job!<BR>><BR>><BR>> How come you didn't see this coming, everything in technology ends
up<BR>> being a commodity. Your business plan and strategy is like putting<BR>> regional distribution and certified engineers in the .com bubble. Voip<BR>> is a bubble only if there are business plans like yours. Didn't you<BR>> learned anything in the Youtube business?<BR>><BR>Good luck with that business plan. 3com and Cisco know better. Digium <BR>will learn soon enough.<BR><BR>Thanks,<BR>Steve<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>--Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com --<BR><BR>asterisk-biz mailing list<BR>To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:<BR> <A href="http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz" target=_blank>http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz</A></DIV></DIV>
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