[Asterisk-Users] Polycom Images

[Manjit Riat]

Well having heard of the praises for polycom phones and everyone loving them
and having trouble finding them I think I'll sign the "We'll only
sell Polycom equipment". Let me look into that for more info..


-----Original Message-----
From: Charlie Watts [mailto:cwatts at mercurypay.com] 
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 12:58 PM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Polycom Images

Manjit Riat wrote:
> Out of curiosity what's the reason? Why would they not sell phones to
> asterisk users? Do they not trust asterisk or their phones to work
> with each other?  

My guess: They don't want to compete with the folks that OEM Polycom
hardware. Lots of commercial phone system vendors just re-brand Polycom
phones, and Polycom doesn't want to hurt their relationship with those
businesses.

I bet that at some point one of the Asterisk-using Polycom vendors gets
the momentum to get a better Polycom<->Asterisk user relationship going.
The trouble is that most of the Asterisk-using hardware vendors are
hardware agnostic, and don't want sign anything that says "We'll only
sell Polycom equipment".