<div>I concur, great suggestion from peter.</div>
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<div>Otherwise we will lose readers of this newsletter, and they will go elsewhere.</div>
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<div>Justin</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/7/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Gmail - PC</b> <<a href="mailto:childs.peter@gmail.com">childs.peter@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">I've been following this group for a while. I joined because I believe that<br>Asterisk, and the development community, needs to develop a detailed
<br>understanding of the customer and their needs if it is going to deliver on<br>the full promise of open-source telephony. It is deep customer understanding<br>that drives proprietary vendors success – and we all need to develop that
<br>(without access to marketing team that number in the hundreds) if we are<br>going to compete over the long term.<br><br>It reminds me of the early days of Computer Telephony when lots of small<br>companies were doing innovative applications. Those companies proved the
<br>market for some applications – and they were bought or their applications<br>copied by the proprietary vendors. Asterisk risks the same fate as the IP<br>era will be another era of experimentation followed by consolidation.
<br><br>I see people using the list to announce products or to promote their<br>products/services. It might be in all of our interests to suggest Digium set<br>up a product database so that anyone can list an Asterisk product or service
<br>(or note an upgrade) and developers have a single place to search for all<br>things Asterisk. Heck there could even be some aggregated rating on a<br>variety of factors (installation, service etc) to help in the selection
<br>process. A weekly update could alert people to new additions – to guide<br>their thinking and discussions with their customers.<br><br>This suggestion might cut down on the amount of email while assuring<br>developers that their product can be promoted, found, and used by the
<br>Asterisk community.<br><br>I apologize if this has been tried and rejected – My object is to somehow<br>highlight or open source our customer insights rather than see them lost in<br>the discussion that might be better directed to a database query.
<br><br>Peter<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>--Bandwidth and Colocation provided by <a href="http://Easynews.com">Easynews.com</a> --<br><br>asterisk-biz mailing list<br>To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:
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