[asterisk-biz] Digium, Polycom, and Netxusa Cutting Us Out?!?

[shadowym]

Yawn,
 
You STILL have to reboot M$ servers once in awhile and malware + 5 nines
reliablility are not mutually exclusive either.  
 
Call me a naysayer but yea, M$ will NOT get this right either.  They have
been dabbling with VoIP for years so all the stuff they are doing now is
nothing new, just another evolution.  
 
They may own the desktop but a business phone system is a whole other ball
game.  If your already an M$ server organization and that is where all your
IT expertise is then it may make sense at some point down the road.  Not
anytime soon.  24 months is irrational optimism IMHO.
 
Right now M$ is trying to go in 10 different directions at once.  They want
to conquer Google, Set top Boxes, Gaming Boxes, Itunes etc. etc. and have
only had limited success if at all.   The #1 rule in Business is to stay
focussed.  They are NOT doing that and all the money in the world won't
help.
 
Don't forget that Cisco/Linksys are very much in the Game as well and have
had a fair amount of success.  It is not M$'s market to lose as they are not
even a player yet and there are plenty of companies far more focussed than
them who already have VERY good and mature products such as Asterisk.
 
My 2 bits.

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From: Dean Collins [mailto:Dean at cognation.net] 
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 6:30 PM
To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
Subject: RE: [asterisk-biz] Digium, Polycom, and Netxusa Cutting Us Out?!?



Hi Craig,

Excellent insight, Exchange 2007 and MS Live Communication Server 2007 (beta
released last week) is certainly changing the 'plug and play' expectation of
voice decision makers. And whilst a lot of naysayer's out there are going to
say MS wont get it right - sure I agree with you, however Microsoft
only/always take until Version 3.0 to get it right and this round of
technology (including the Response Technology hardware) is already Version
2.0 so within the next 18-24 months, voice will be nothing more than a
downloadable module in Microsoft Office 2009.

 

(as for Digium and all the Asterisk system integrators - that's all cool, we
just need to be ahead of the curve and developing advanced applications that
keep us ahead of Microsoft like the current Firefox/Internet Explorer
battles)

 

Regards,

Dean Collins
Cognation Pty Ltd
 <mailto:dean at cognation.net> dean at cognation.net
+1-212-203-4357 Ph
+1-917-207-3420 Mb
+61-2-9016-5642 (Sydney in-dial).

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From: asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Craig Lawrence
Sent: Saturday, 31 March 2007 8:53 PM
To: 'Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion'
Subject: RE: [asterisk-biz] Digium, Polycom, and Netxusa Cutting Us Out?!?

 

If you assume:

 

- MS Exchange (or something of a similar name) will eventually include a PBX
server as part of the many optional configurations choices (it may require a
special license or upgrade for a short while and then become a free option
subject to competitive forces); and

- Asterisk will be going head-to-head against this product with an interface
such as the 'early' yet promising AsteriskNOW interface.

 

Then the main target market for VoIP installs will probably be your in-house
network admin guy, not the external provider/consultant.

 

Perhaps as VoIP evolves and becomes mainstream part of this evolution is to
remove the need for an external consultant in many cases other than the
complex deployments.

 

So perhaps it's not the vendors cutting integrators out of the less complex
installs, perhaps it's the market itself that's evolving.

 

Cheers

 

Craig Lawrence

 

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