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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Dave,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I rarely get affected by any postings but
I think that today you did hurt my feelings </span></font><font size=2
color=navy face=Wingdings><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;
color:navy'>J</span></font><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> – you may know that
I happen to be the author of another GUI – Thirdlane PBX Manager. I was
just wondering – what makes you say that Switchvox is “light years
ahead of anything else”? Did you have some really bad experience with a
particular GUI or just “anything else”?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Absolutely nothing against Switchvox, I am
just curious what makes you feel so strongly (negative about anything else)? And
only one complaint you have about the software? I have many complaints about
our own software after 3 years of constant improvement and so do our customers,
plus there is a long list of feature requests. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Have you tried Thirdlane, or PBXware (Senad,
I hope you don’t mind me speaking on your behalf – I think highly
of PBXware even though you are a competition), or any other GUIs recently? <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Well, since Dean is going to do the
burning and the testing we should probably let Dean decide what he likes. That
said – gentlemen prefer blondes </span></font><font size=2 color=navy
face=Wingdings><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:navy'>J</span></font><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Alex <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:windowtext;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
color:windowtext'> asterisk-biz-bounces@lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces@lists.digium.com] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>dave cantera<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, November 01, 2007
9:03 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Commercial
and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> Cantera, David (IBS);
stotaro@totarotechnologies.com<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [asterisk-biz]
Switchvox Free Edition</span></font><font color=black><span style='color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color="#330000" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>I haven't seen the free edition but I have used
switchvox for about three years now... the equipment works flawlessly, quick to
install, is easy to use, and easy to train on... <br>
<br>
yes, their gui is light years ahead of anything else and that is why digium was
smart enough to pick them up. the guys and gals at switchvox are top
notch designers. there is only one complaint that I have and if there is
only one complaint, you know the product is good. the complaint was
that in installations of over 500+ extensions or intricate IVRs, it was tedious
to page through or scroll the web interface. I talked to tristen at VON
Boston and they are reworking that mechanism. <br>
<br>
in the past, they integrated the asterisk product and probably worked closely
with digium programmers to get * bug fixes they they found identified.
now that workload is offloaded to digium and they can concentrate more on the
gui. <br>
the latest release, that I haven't seen until this week at VON, has plugins so
you can do cool things like 'google' a caller id, pop up a google map of where
the call came from, launch sales force or sugarCRM right in their gui... you
can even design your own plugins... <br>
<br>
switchvox was already ahead of the competitors in this marketplace, this new
release leapfrogs them 100 fold. switchvox has made a smart move by
adding the plugins digium saw the benefit of picking them up, and it is a
VERY wise choice to add this into your product mix.<br>
daveC<br>
<br>
<br>
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Steve Totaro wrote: <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>Antonio Gallo wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#330000" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
<blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt' type=cite><pre wrap=""><font
size=2 color="#330000" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Tim Booth ha scritto:<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#330000" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#330000" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
<blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt' type=cite><pre wrap=""><font
size=2 color="#330000" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>It looks like its limited to 15 extensions and no access to most of the <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#330000" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>call center things and no call recording. Another free distro stealing <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#330000" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>some of the trixboxers is CentPBX.<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#330000" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#330000" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre></blockquote>
<pre wrap=""><font size=2 color="#330000" face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>SwitchVox has a really nice GUI, not to mention i stoled their website <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#330000" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>them for my own personal website some years ago (now rewroted).<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#330000" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#330000" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>I got some decent idea for reimplementing the GUI for the PBX of my <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#330000" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>company, we're going to release a free version too in january.<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#330000" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#330000" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>so basically SwitchVox pw0n TrixBox badly<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#330000" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#330000" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>AgX<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#330000" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#330000" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#330000" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre></blockquote>
<pre wrap=""><font size=2 color="#330000" face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>That should read "Digium/Adtran" p0wned "Trixbox". <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#330000" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#330000" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Made for some fun undertones at Astricon. <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#330000" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#330000" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>I wish I had snapped a picture of Mark Spencer standing in front of the <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#330000" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>larger than life Trixbox convention setup with a BIG grin on his face <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#330000" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>the evening before the announcement of the Switchvox acquisition. I <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#330000" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>wondered why the sh*t eating grin..... Too funny.<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#330000" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#330000" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#330000" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Steve<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#330000" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#330000" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#330000" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>--Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by <a
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size=2 color="#330000" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>asterisk-biz mailing list<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
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<pre><font size=2 color="#330000" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>-- <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font size=2 color="#330000"
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>My wife's sister is in <st1:State
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">California</st1:place></st1:State>. <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#330000" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>I should buy her a Videophone2008!<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
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size=2 color="#330000" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#330000" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>WorldWideVideoPhones.com<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 color="#330000" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>856.380.0894<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
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