@scottalanmiller Oh yes. The Dallas regionals happened just recently and I think 900 or so were in that tournament. I would have gone but had to watch the kids unexpectedly.

@scottalanmiller Yeah I know she is just a sales person but she should know more than that.

Pokemon tournament this weekend. They sell beer there too so you can have a cold one while you play cards.

@gjacobse Oh nice. I'm from more south, Adair county which is where I went to high school at. My dad still owns a farm there in tobacco land.

@scottalanmiller Ok I have to mention this then since you brought that up. During our SwitchVox demo the saleslady said their phones were Digium branded phones. I then asked who made them since it was kind of implied that they did not since she used the word "branded". I honestly did not know the answer and is why I was asking. She said they did. I then said, so you manufacture and sell your own phones, really? She said yes. I said no more questions. Btw my first question was what their software pbx was based on and she said Linux centos. Not some sort of pbx like freepbx or asterisk, no, it was definitely linux centos she said!

@scottalanmiller Well yeah they are everywhere and mainstream. This is why I have trouble getting things across, I would have to start at beginning of everything, every time i give my opinion on something, and I don't have time for that

@scottalanmiller Haven't looked into that yet but I plan on investigating. I do it all manually right now.

@gjacobse Central Kentucky? I'm from central kentucky until i moved to TX. Where at in Ky?

@dashrender To some degree it does not but if we are going to make an investment for 300-400 phones then my opinion is to get something that has few issues. Our current phones are constantly having issues and are outdated. Something mainstream like that would have the few features we need and more most likely. To me, it does matter a little bit.

@eddiejennings Yeah PreSonus is good stuff too

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@scottalanmiller Well we are getting demos of phone .... mobile apps.

You only need demos of those things for systems that are proprietary and don't let you choose what you want. Nothing wrong with a demo or features, but "use anything you want" is the best demo. Basically, the demos you are seeing are demonstrations of limitations, not of features. For open systems, there isn't really anything like that to demo in the first place.

99% of SMB don't want this. They want a solution. great it's open - now - what should I use to get mobile access? They expect an answer - not, anything you want.

I don't believe that. I think they just buy that because they turn to sales people willing to gouge them and they don't bother actually doing some basic research to see how phones work. I think 99% of SMBs would avoid this if they understood what they were buying.

They don't ACTUALLY want to get ripped off, they just don't want to "think about it" and get ripped off as a byproduct. There is a difference between wanting to be lazy and hoping that you can be lazy AND get a good deal. It's not realistic, but desiring to be lazy doesn't actually mean that they want a bad deal.

AGREE!

@dashrender Yeah thats what it is like for me too. I am a big fan of Yeahlink phones so I mentioned it one day when they were asking me what I would do. Neither persons had ever heard of Yeahlink phones. So its hard getting people to understand why something is a good choice when they have not heard of it before

@scottalanmiller Well we really do not need to manage it ourselves. This is just what the phone lady was looking at. She will be in charge of it and knows what she wants out of it.

@eddiejennings My FocusRite works fine. Probably better out there though

@dashrender Ok cool thanks. So it really just depends on the requirements and a lot of ways to go about it. I have so much to learn lol.

@dashrender Her term for the management side of things. Such as setting up groups, looking at logs, paying the bill, switchboard, and things like that.

@scottalanmiller Just to be clear she is looking for the whole package. Including some sort of hosting, phones, call manager, various other features, and a mobile app for byod. That is what we are looking at.

@scottalanmiller Well we are getting demos of phone and call manager software along with mobile apps. So we may be talking about different things here.

@scottalanmiller I think its too late today but a demo of some sort would be nice of what you all offer. She likes demos.

@scottalanmiller Let me find out schedules. We are watching a demo now from Consolidated Communications. Wendie had several vendors lined up so not sure what else is going on today.