Hello World!...This is my cynical view...

"Oh crap, not the 'hello world' thing again..."

If I had a penny for every time someone signed up for a twitter or blogger account and their only post was "hello world", I would be a rich, rich man!

...Unfortunately for my critics, this is not the case and I'm just as poor as the rest of the upper-middle class. I have to cut costs and fees anywhere I can, just to put bird seed on the table...and at the end of the day, I have more money than you!

Why? I have a 'secret'...A "better way" if you will...(in the Agent Smith voice in the Matrix)

"A secret?...hmm...do go on.."

I pay $2.50 a month for my phone. How? Asterisk: the open-source VOIP platform that runs on Linux. I connect directly via the IAX2 protocol to Unlimitel wholesale VOIP which connects to the public switched telephone network (PSTN). This solution requires NO SOFTWARE LICENSING WHATSOEVER.

"Whatever...we all know that EVERY PBX needs licenses...Avaya, Nortel...take your pick...how is it we have not heard about this Asterisk before?"

You haven't heard as much about Asterisk because the executives in your corporation can't buy stock in it...and if they can't make money off their decisions, why would they promote it? After all, they only make 6 figures a year...how are they supposed to send 2 kids to an Ivy league school on THAT salary?!

It's true though. In these tough times the rich keep getting richer. Sure, they could have recommended Open-source solutions and saved MILLIONS in licensing costs and KEPT all those tech jobs in North America rather than outsourcing to India...

Think about that...Think about the impact on your local economy if all those outsourced technical jobs were still here...cars, houses, food...Simply by having a few executives select Open-Source over a big-name proprietary solution...It's the small ripple that could potentially turn into a tidal wave and right the sinking ship that is our economy!

I suppose some of them could have chosen Open-Source when they had the chance...but that wouldn't have put any more Rupees in their silk-lined pockets...

IT Executives, make yourselves look good: Choose Open-Source!

(More on exactly how I did this in upcoming blog)

Open-Source VOIP

http://www.asterisk.org/
http://www.trixbox.org/
http://www.freepbx.org/
http://www.unlimitel.ca/