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color=#0000ff size=2>Steve,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>Why v3000 would be better then asterisk based
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color=#0000ff size=2>Thanks</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> asterisk-biz-bounces@lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces@lists.digium.com] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Steve
Totaro<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, November 06, 2008 8:53 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re:
[asterisk-biz] Key selling points (or) USPs for Asterisk
PBX<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 8:29 AM, deva free <SPAN
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href="mailto:devafree@yahoo.com">devafree@yahoo.com</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman,new york,times,serif">Hello
all<BR><BR>I am new here. I am currently doing freelance Asterisk work in
Chennai, India.<BR><BR>I would be glad to hear from the experienced members
of our list as to what they define as the best things about adoption of
Asterisk instead of proprietary solutions.<BR><BR>I myself list (pitch
to prospectives) on freedom from vendor lock-in, features, flexibility and
of course
cost.<BR><BR>Regards<BR><BR>devafree<BR>(R.Mahadevan)<BR></DIV><BR></DIV><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV><BR>I don't focus so much on upfront cost, if they are shopping, they
will be aware. <BR><BR>Besides, sometimes the initial cost is MORE for
an Asterisk system compared to a little Toshiba or whatever.<BR><BR>If you
price yourself too low, you are just hurting yourself and will be out of
business soon enough, which also hurts Open Source as a whole and Asterisk
directly. <BR><BR>I pickup so many customers from guys that do data only
stuff and stumble upon Asterisk, think they can make a few bucks on it, but do
not understand the intricacies nor best practices of voice and/or VoIP, and
they stop doing Asterisk after falling short on several installs, they stop
offering Asterisk service, or the customer gets fed up with on going problems
and are glad to pay top dollar for what is essentially the life blood of their
company.<BR><BR>I focus on ROI, more productivity, lower cost of ownership
overall. <BR><BR>PSSSS, Sometimes an 3com V3000 is a much better fit for
a customer than Asterisk. Other customers may be better served with a
different non-asterisk based system.<BR></DIV></DIV><BR>--
<BR>Thanks,<BR>Steve Totaro <BR>+18887771888 (Toll Free)<BR>+12409381212
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