Not a big fan of the Rube Goldberg solution? What?
Who is there that would give up a ring diode matrix that is as stable as an elephant in a gentle breeze?
Have you no idea how many ITT cut off switches have been sold? Why the very idea.
I would say that we do predominently small customers and a friend of mine loves installing and maintaining Shoretel. I'm not far from slowing down a lot, so I'm really not in the busioness of maintaining switches for Fortune 500 customers.
At some point I will sell off the customer base and do enough sales calls to keep body and soul together. I am not one of those young whippersnappers that are strong on data and there will always be a need for salespeople.
I have a hosted Cisco 7960 in my office as part of a sales demo thing and it is OK, but it has such limits on stuff I want that I wouldn't yank out my Toshiba CIX if I could get a free Cisco. If I wanted to link sites with large ACD applications then it would be a totally differt ball game.
I wasn't trying to put down the systems such as Cisco, Shoretel, and such but they are not inexpensive and unless they scale down their price to fit the people who want a dozen phones, key systems will be around for a very long time.
I would say that it is very informational to read what you have posted and that is a very good service to a lot of people.
Thanks, Bunnie
