Comments on: Microsoft, Digium: Heading In Opposite VoIP Directions?

By: Coder88

Coder88 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:30:19 +0000

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By: Andrew jones

Andrew jones — Sat, 30 May 2009 09:26:44 +0000

It’s rightly written in the article.A major development starting has been the introduction of mass-market VoIP services over broadband Internet access services, in which subscribers make and receive calls as they would over the PSTN.

By: The VAR Guy

The VAR Guy — Fri, 22 May 2009 01:56:15 +0000

Peter: Solutions providers have a choice… cannibalize their own solutions. Or face market disrupters. Either way, same old strategy is not the way to go.

By: Peter Knezevich

Peter Knezevich — Thu, 21 May 2009 17:40:38 +0000

All very good points on how MS has provided solutions in the past. I think the future is going to be problematic. Cisco and their APX competition is emblematic of the challenges ahead for the incumbent solution providers

By: The VAR Guy

The VAR Guy — Thu, 21 May 2009 10:53:59 +0000

Lawrence: Good points all around. The VAR Guy gives you his word that this site will make an effort to focus on those additional projects/developments.

By: Lawrence D'Oliveiro

Lawrence D'Oliveiro — Thu, 21 May 2009 10:04:58 +0000

There are other open-source projects in the telephony space: what about the CallWeaver fork of Asterisk, and the FreeSwitch project, which takes a different direction entirely. There’s a great deal of diversity here, and anybody too closely focused on Digium could get blindsided.

By: jds

jds — Thu, 21 May 2009 03:11:36 +0000

According to the scuttlebutt on minimsft blog, (a really really good read by the way), ResponsePoint is completely dead.

http://minimsft.blogspot.com/2009/05/microsoft-layoffs-cinco-de-fire-o.html?commentPage=5

http://www.ipcom-insights.com/blog/jon/2009/05/microsoft-cuts-include-response-point.aspx

By: The VAR Guy

The VAR Guy — Thu, 21 May 2009 02:57:25 +0000

Peter: You are correct to point out increasingly popular solutions like Asterisk, LAMP, Digium, etc.

However, The VAR Guy must give credit where credit is due: Microsoft has spent more than two decades working closely with PC resellers, integrators and solutions providers. The company has rewarded the channel over and over again with lucrative opportunities. First desktop, then NT server, then backoffice applications…

Microsoft’s recent silence on Response Point is both disturbing and upsetting. But let’s not assume one VoIP setback means all Microsoft solutions are dead ends.

Sure, Digium has a hot solution. And The VAR Guy continues to cover disruptive technologies closely. But while hundreds of VARs have discovered Digium, tens of thousands continue to march alongside Microsoft…

By: Peter Knezevich

Peter Knezevich — Thu, 21 May 2009 02:15:14 +0000

I don’t understand why anyone thought in the long term an MS solution would be viable in this space. With asterisk, digium, and a LAMP stack approach, especially for a small business – 10 to 15 extensions.