[asterisk-users] Google acquires Grand Central

[Dean Collins]

Sorry for the very delayed response but wanted to add - the older I get
the more I realize that it very often has little to do with Technology.

Packaging something into an easy to understand easy to market 'product'
is more often than not the key to successful sales.

GrandCentral have won business that would never have moved to an
asterisk server because even Trixbox is still too complicated.

We really need some more off the shelf asterisk appliances that are self
contained and plug and play for people that aren't geeks.


Cheers,
Dean






> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-
> bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Alex Balashov
> Sent: Monday, 9 July 2007 1:28 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Google acquires Grand Central
> 
> On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, Wendell Hamilton wrote:
> 
> > GrandCentral doesn't do anything you can't do with asterisk.  What
it
> > does do is put those features within reach of an average person by
> > providing a superb user interface for the end user, which allows
them to
> > self-administer all of these wonderful features.
> 
>    Indeed, the success of their accomplishment -- as with most aspects
of
> successful business -- seems to have been in effectively
*productising*
> these solutions, and developing viable business processes and workflow
> in order to make them viably scale to the masses of end-users.
> 
> --
> Alex Balashov
> Evariste Systems
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