[Asterisk-biz] Help needed convincing a big customer.

[Willem de Groot]

Jason Becker wrote:

> I think selling *-based solutions to Pragmatists is challenging 
> because all that they care about is a mature product. And that means a 
> 100% total solution that includes well-written documentation, 
> marketing materials that make it easy to compare with competitors, 
> training, etc. Something that is lacking in the * community.

My current customer (neither pragmatist nor early adopter) with an 
estimated 5000+ endpoints has another requirement. Before giving 
Asterisk a Go in a pilot, it would like to see figures that make the 
quality of the Asterisk platform explicit. It would certainly help the 
speed of adoption of Asterisk, if figures of large deployments are 
published. The fact that these figures are not available, could mean that

    * there currently are no bigger deployments than a few hundred
      endpoints, or
    * large companies see their asterisk deployment as a strategic asset
      and thus do not wish to publish this information.

What is your opinion about this? Furthermore, would you be willing to 
post some facts of your largest implementations (# of endpoints, total 
running time so far, # of incidents) to this list, which could be used 
to convince potential new customers? If we could manage to build such a 
reference list, it could be beneficial to everyone. The more references, 
the better...

Willem