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Open Source - it makes perfect sense!
By ShowMeTheMoney | August 16, 2007
I know I have mentioned using open source software in the past. Ive re-visited some of my favourite software recently and have been amazed just how far things have progressed. In many cases the free stuff is now more developed and better supported than the commercial alternatives! Theres no excuse for paying daft sums of money on software. A bit of research will reveal an open source solution for most requirements.
Over the last couple of months we have completely replaced our telephone system with an open source solution. This now supports the other business I am involved with as well as my Internet Marketing activities. It even runs across two locations. The software we are using is called Trixbox. This is built on top of a Linux based IP - telephony application that has been kicking around for a couple of years now called Asterisk. Essentially you can run a fully fledged PBX on a quite modest PC. You get all the functionality that you could only get before with a £5,000 PBX from the likes of Avaya or Cisco! I honestly cant see their business model lasting with this sort of technology snowballing! The days of the proprietary PBX system is dead!
From an Internet marketing point of view this Niche looks really promising and I have a number of things already in the pipeline. In fact my little office is currently overflowing with VoIP, IP telephones from Snom, a German manufacturer and we already have a site in development to sell pre-configured PBX’s to the UK market and other VoIP related hardware. This niche nicely ties together a lot of stuff we have been doing over the last couple of years; including all the Internet marketing side of things as well as the server software / hardware installation business.
I have spent a couple of weeks writing a ”PBX” sales letter for new and existing small business customers of our installation business. The website is really to address the other side of things, the PBX Reseller market and the growing community of people who are just experimenting with Asterisk and VoIP.
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