[Asterisk-biz] Asterisk for small businesses.

[Jim Van Meggelen]

asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com wrote:
> I've been enjoying this thread tremendously.
 
> Another way to gain leverage into the small business space is to have 
> quality sales and marketing materials - on paper - stuff that makes it

> to the PHB - something that tells the story in as simple a way as 
> possible. Brochures - basically one the tools provided by vendors that

> had a strong var channel in the 80s (Novell, Altos)...
>
> we could get higher quality repeatable sales by open sourcing and 
> sharing in the cost of creation of these materials...

Hmmm . . . That's a creative idea. Gotta let that one percolate . . . 

> I have also really looked in awe at the success of the spreadfirefox 
> campaign.

Fuelled by similar motives as open-source telephony.

> and while we are all in competition with each other, the real 
> competition is the Nortels, the AT&Ts, and the like, so forming an 
> association of VARs make sense, whether it be informal - as today - or

> formal - as in some sort of non-profit -

I heard the term "co-opetition" recently. An interesting concept.

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