[asterisk-biz] PBX Functionality for Less than the Price of a KeySystem (3Com Asterisk IP Telephony Appliance)

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 06:05:51PM +0200, Trixter aka Bret McDanel wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 10:31 -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 07:58:44AM -0400, Steve Totaro wrote:
> > > I will give Jay the benefit of the doubt, but he is usually very quick
> > > to reply these kinds of messages.  Maybe he is on vacation or
> > > otherwise not interested or checking his email right now.
> > > 
> > > Or possibly he does not care to eat crow.
> > 
> > I like mine fried, but I don't have to eat it too often, and this is
> > certainly not one of those times.
> > 
> Well at least you informed us that the reason telephony equipment is so
> expensive is because of support issues.  Now I know nortel charges an
> arm and a leg just so they can provide support to its customers, and not
> because of a "because we can" attitude.  Thanks for clearing that up I
> was so misguided to think that selling service and support contracts
> extra like some of them do that the equipment price was justified with
> things like "R&D" and some such when the reality is "greed".  

I did, in fact, point out that the issue is reliability generally; I
didn't say "provide support"; I said "doesn't break as much".

> > My grilf had surgery last Thursday, and I've been playing Mr Mom all
> > week.
> 
> at least you still have time for this list and putting people down.
> Without that we would all be lost.

Well, I suspect everyone on this list whose opinion I care about will
read my posting, and your reply, and make their own decisions who's a
crank, and who's not.

Cheers,
-- jra
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