[ Thanks to The
VAR Guy for this link. ]
“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).”