Why World Doesn't Love Technology as Much as You Do

Jim Van Meggelen is one of 3 authors of Asterisk: The Future of Telephony (found on http://books.google.com/, http://www.Amazon.com, in your local library and more). He takes you into the mind of an SMB who is generally not turned on by new technologies nor taking risks but needs what will work to meet his needs. He describes the typical IT department, often no one or often the son of the owner. ;-) This is just a piece of the presentation. I learned much more from him and his partner Joel over dinner Friday night, but even more fun, we kind of became a new collaborative think tank for each other. The company he represents serves SMBs with phones that don't lock them to one vendor, services that feel like the old stuff but better, with commoditized platforms, more flexible and scalable than they ever dreamed of. Last, I grabbed a memorable quote: "If we don't hang together, we will hang separately = Co-opetition." Kudos to Jim! Exactly one of DIDX's reasons for existing! Entities previously perceived as competitors cooperating with success for all. Jim is the President and CTO of Core Telecom Innovations, a Canadian-based provider of open-source telephony solutions.

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[alijahblue]

Very informative talk Jim. Would look forward to actually being in attendance. Looking for your third edition of Asterisk. Keep up the good work.