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<FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>And lemme guess... Its ran on opensource? hah<BR>
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<HR ALIGN=CENTER SIZE="3" WIDTH="95%"><B>From: </B>Moshe Maeir <moshe@flatplanetphone.com><BR>
<B>Reply-To: </B>Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion <asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com><BR>
<B>Date: </B>Mon, 04 May 2009 10:53:18 +0300<BR>
<B>To: </B>Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion <asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com><BR>
<B>Subject: </B>Re: [asterisk-biz] Brokerage Firms and Asterisk?<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Consolas, Courier New, Courier"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'>I know a company that sells a non Asterisk, Hosted SIP solution. Their sales pitch is<BR>
"Do you really want open source?? So some terrorist can enter your system thru a backdoor and <BR>
take over your pbx??"<BR>
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Sounds funny, but some people buy it.<BR>
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Thats why I think it would be beneficial for all of us, if we could put together a list <BR>
of major asterisk based installations. Whenever a potential customer repeats some of the competitions scare tactics <BR>
just refer him to that list :-)<BR>
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Moshe<BR>
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John Todd wrote: <BR>
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On May 3, 2009, at 6:36 PM, David Shauger wrote:<BR>
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We have been approached by a brokerage firm to upgrade their phone <BR>
system to VoIP and presented Asterisk as a solution. Our competition <BR>
is pushing Microsoft's system and states that Asterisk is forbidden <BR>
in the industry especially following last year's FBI warning. <BR>
Anybody have clarification on this? Hoping they are wrong.<BR>
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Thanks!<BR>
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David Shauger<BR>
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David -<BR>
Nonsense. Ask them for documentation. As far as I am aware, this is <BR>
pure myth. In fact, Digium has a partner whose primary business <BR>
involves installing Asterisk-based systems in brokerage houses.<BR>
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JT<BR>
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Digium, Inc. | Asterisk Open Source Community Director<BR>
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