Comments on: Fonality Sends Open Source Relief to US Gulf Coast http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/09/18/fonality-sends-open-source-relief-to-us-gulf-coast/ Channel News, Reseller News and Channel Partner Programs Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:00:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: The VAR Guy http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/09/18/fonality-sends-open-source-relief-to-us-gulf-coast/comment-page-1/#comment-80553 The VAR Guy Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:42:44 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/09/18/fonality-sends-open-source-relief-to-us-gulf-coast/#comment-80553 Illiterati: Um, they become CEOs because they take risks, launch their own businesses, and then build those businesses. You may not agree with the business strategy, but Fonality seems to be succeeding... Illiterati: Um, they become CEOs because they take risks, launch their own businesses, and then build those businesses. You may not agree with the business strategy, but Fonality seems to be succeeding…

]]> By: Illiterati http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/09/18/fonality-sends-open-source-relief-to-us-gulf-coast/comment-page-1/#comment-80552 Illiterati Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:36:40 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/09/18/fonality-sends-open-source-relief-to-us-gulf-coast/#comment-80552 How do these people get jobs, let alone become CEOs? SPURN Pronunciation: \?sp?rn\ transitive verb 1: to tread sharply or heavily upon : trample 2: to reject with disdain or contempt : scorn How do these people get jobs, let alone become CEOs?

SPURN

Pronunciation: \?sp?rn\
transitive verb

1: to tread sharply or heavily upon : trample
2: to reject with disdain or contempt : scorn

]]> By: Dal http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/09/18/fonality-sends-open-source-relief-to-us-gulf-coast/comment-page-1/#comment-80405 Dal Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:34:17 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/09/18/fonality-sends-open-source-relief-to-us-gulf-coast/#comment-80405 Nice concept to help out the Gulf Coast victims but I hope they read there ToS and make sure they are not agreeing to a long term contract with maintenance fees. I know they are trying to help but as a for profit business I have to be skeptical that they would give this away for free without anyway of re-couping the expense. As for Fonality, in my opinion they has taken from the Asterisk community and gave not given back and have done alot of work to distance them self from Asterisk so people this is there product that they developed all by them selves. The bought a open-source project called Trixbox that they used as their base platform. I am not a fan of this approach and it goes against what open source is all about. I am also not happy with the direction Digium/Asterisk is taking with SwitchVox either, I think they both are missing the point in their own way but of course many people will read this and think I am wrong at least about Digium. I don't like the way SwitchVox has their licensing setup where you have to pay a large amount extra for the GUI and updates on a per seat basis and you even have to pay to provision a Polycom IP Phone but then they don't give you root access to the server to do it yourself. It seems like everyone want to make their platform a "Me Too" product so when they are compared to Cisco they can go "me too" on whatever they have to offer when being disruptive, feature rich, reliable, expandable without extra cost is what the customer wants. .03 -Dal AsteriskVoIPNews.com Nice concept to help out the Gulf Coast victims but I hope they read there ToS and make sure they are not agreeing to a long term contract with maintenance fees. I know they are trying to help but as a for profit business I have to be skeptical that they would give this away for free without anyway of re-couping the expense. As for Fonality, in my opinion they has taken from the Asterisk community and gave not given back and have done alot of work to distance them self from Asterisk so people this is there product that they developed all by them selves. The bought a open-source project called Trixbox that they used as their base platform. I am not a fan of this approach and it goes against what open source is all about. I am also not happy with the direction Digium/Asterisk is taking with SwitchVox either, I think they both are missing the point in their own way but of course many people will read this and think I am wrong at least about Digium. I don’t like the way SwitchVox has their licensing setup where you have to pay a large amount extra for the GUI and updates on a per seat basis and you even have to pay to provision a Polycom IP Phone but then they don’t give you root access to the server to do it yourself. It seems like everyone want to make their platform a “Me Too” product so when they are compared to Cisco they can go “me too” on whatever they have to offer when being disruptive, feature rich, reliable, expandable without extra cost is what the customer wants. .03

-Dal
AsteriskVoIPNews.com

]]> By: David Cook http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/09/18/fonality-sends-open-source-relief-to-us-gulf-coast/comment-page-1/#comment-80393 David Cook Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:24:55 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/09/18/fonality-sends-open-source-relief-to-us-gulf-coast/#comment-80393 While the VARGuy doesn't know how many free servers Fonality are committing themselves to ship, I'm sure that Fonality do. On that basis the balance of the potential free publicity and positive community image versus the bottom line cost of the free kit and resouce being supplied is sure to be firmly in Fonality's favour. That said Fonality need all the positive community image they can get. This made me smile: "But Fonality’s own developers have written thousands of lines of enhanced code, meaning that Fonality’s performance is less and less related to Asterisk, and more and more tied to Fonality’s own R&D." How much has been contributed back to Asterisk and other FOSS projects such as FreePBX on which Fonality depend? Not much if any. While the VARGuy doesn’t know how many free servers Fonality are committing themselves to ship, I’m sure that Fonality do.

On that basis the balance of the potential free publicity and positive community image versus the bottom line cost of the free kit and resouce being supplied is sure to be firmly in Fonality’s favour.

That said Fonality need all the positive community image they can get. This made me smile:

“But Fonality’s own developers have written thousands of lines of enhanced code, meaning that Fonality’s performance is less and less related to Asterisk, and more and more tied to Fonality’s own R&D.”

How much has been contributed back to Asterisk and other FOSS projects such as FreePBX on which Fonality depend? Not much if any.

]]> By: James Cagle http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/09/18/fonality-sends-open-source-relief-to-us-gulf-coast/comment-page-1/#comment-80390 James Cagle Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:28:47 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/09/18/fonality-sends-open-source-relief-to-us-gulf-coast/#comment-80390 This is one of the main reasons that Dell has chosen Fonality to partner with, their forward thinking ability as well as having an amazing platform for our small and medium business customers gives us an advantage that no one can match. This is one of the main reasons that Dell has chosen Fonality to partner with, their forward thinking ability as well as having an amazing platform for our small and medium business customers gives us an advantage that no one can match.

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