"While most people are zigging, Michael Dell continues to zag...The Fonality deal may also help Dell to push deeper into managed services. The reason: Many solutions providers and service providers are testing or deploying Asterisk as a hosted phone service. It’s easy to envision those service providers deploying Dell/Asterisk servers in their data centers and Asterisk phones at customer sites. In fact, Dell is pursuing that very model by offering Fonality in a “hybrid-hosted” configuration (part on premises, part hosted)."
