Comments on: A Sobering Look at Asterisk and the 2019 VoIP Landscape

By: Victor

Victor — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 09:59:39 +0000

What do you mean that Vitelity is bowing out of the VOIP retail business? I could not find any information about this. Thanks for your help and have a great holiday!

[WM: More news soon.]

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 03:24:28 +0000

As someone who works at Digium this is full of so many holes. Combined Digium and Sangoma are 400 people. We laid off a total of 22 people across the whole combined company mainly in operations and cery little in R&D. A 1 time layoff and done.sangoma was very clear they would need to do a small round of layoffs very early on and even talked about it in the press release about 4 million in cuts and most of it came from non staff cuts. I think you owe it to yourself and the community to see a quarter or two of results before you start making the type of claims you have made…

By: C.J.

C.J. — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 00:42:44 +0000

I have wonder what motivated you to write this. The PBX market has never been companies small enough to settle for replacing it with cell phones. Those clients have been a losing financial propositions for anyone that has targeted them. The VoIP market is on a growth curve that has no end in sight. Sangoma has everything banked on Asterisk’s success and knows better than anyone the next competitor is a fork away. My company has been in the Eco system since 2002 and frankly I disagree on almost every point in your article. It makes me wonder if perhaps your issues may be unique to your platform or company. Still plenty of fruit on the tree and a bright future ahead from my perspective. I feel bad if indeed people are losing jobs in Huntsville, but I’m sure Sangoma is growing and is trying to keep as many people as possible in the family.

[WM: Always happy to post an opposing view. For the sake of the Asterisk community, here’s hoping your crystal ball is far better than ours.]