[asterisk-users] anyone from Joplin, MO

[David Backeberg]

I can't speak for others, but I'm on here from a non-work address.
Asterisk is a competitive advantage, and I think many businesses are
reticent to advertise to their competitors how much money they saved
on such a great phone system. We're saving literally hundreds of
thousands of dollars by avoiding the ugly proprietary phone systems
from the usual telco crowd.

If you can't make the argument for asterisk by comparing the costs
against a proprietary phone system, just pull some quotes from a
proprietary phones salesperson. It should be a very easy business
decision, made on dollars and cents.

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 3:39 PM, Bryson Medlock <bmedlock at chcchurch.org> wrote:
> I'm trying to convince my employer to deploy an Asterisk based system, but
> one member of the leadership team is against it.  The rest of the team is
> for it, but he's convinced them that we should find other organisations in
> the Joplin, MO area who are using Asterisk first because, "we don't want to
> be the first in our area."  I can't fathom how that's relevant, since I have
> shown them case studies from much larger organisations than us around the
> country, and personally talked with other organisations using Asterisk, and
> found one small business with about 10 phones in Joplin, MO and talked to
> them, but he's insistent we find an organisation with 50-75 or more phones
> in the Joplin, MO area using Asterisk before we go ahead.
> So, is there anyone out there from the Joplin, MO area using Asterisk, or do
> you know of someone who is?  If so, please contact me so I can go forward
> with this project.
>
> Thanks,
> Bryson
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