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

[Steve Totaro]

You could be correct. An example of this is the brick and mortar Travel 
Agency. They are almost extinct.

Let's take market evolution a step further. The role of Network Admin 
will be outsourced to some 3rd world country the same way as support, 
helpdesk, call centers, and programming are now.

The way Cisco is going GUI with SDM, who needs a network admin on staff 
anyways?

I argue that "Network Admins" will become extinct and only the "Outside 
Consultant" will survive. Someone needs to plug the gear in and then 
everything will be managed from India, Pakistan, Philippines, or 
wherever they are pumping out cheap labor that can get the job done. It 
is quite expensive to keep someone onsite full time and not really 
needed when you boil it down.

Maybe keep an A+ certified tech on staff to plug in the power and move 
stuff around so the guy in (insert eastern country) can configure the 
Bios and install whatever OS via KVMoIP. You can get one of those A+ 
guys for $25k/yr.

Might as well hire the illegal aliens from (insert South American 
Country) to run the cabling, pay the A+ guy, hire an "Outside 
Consultant" for an initial setup (basically get the network up), and 
then pay pennies on the dollar for continued "Network Administration".

The rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer. The middle class 
will cease to exist. This will happen in about a year when the National 
ID Card (complete with RFID) and checkpoints across the USA become a 
reality.

Thanks,
Steve


Craig Lawrence wrote:
>
> 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**
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> _______________________________________________
> --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com --
>
> asterisk-biz mailing list
> To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:
>    http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
>