asterisk users - Feb 2005 - How to charge for Asterisk installations and ongoing support?

Hi,
I'm just wondering how other people cost/charge for * boxes they have
installed
in small businesses?

Asterisk is such a complex beast and is capable of so much it seems
equally complex to figure out a charging model!?

I'm contemplating installing a pair of servers at a small company with
two separate locations, one main aim is to provide a IAX link between
the two but I'm sure they will want other features!?

Renting vs purchasing? Support contracts? etc?

Does anybody have any pearls of wisdom about this topic they are happy to share?

Many thanks,

Mike

fwd:526146

Did you miss the name of this list? This is a non commercial discussion
list. Since you are asking about commercial aspects, maybe you should
take this over to -biz where the commercial side of the group talks
about that sort of thing. 

On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 20:57 +0000, Mike Dent wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm just wondering how other people cost/charge for * boxes they have
installed
> in small businesses?
> 
> Asterisk is such a complex beast and is capable of so much it seems
> equally complex to figure out a charging model!?
> 
> I'm contemplating installing a pair of servers at a small company with
> two separate locations, one main aim is to provide a IAX link between
> the two but I'm sure they will want other features!?
> 
> Renting vs purchasing? Support contracts? etc?
> 
> Does anybody have any pearls of wisdom about this topic they are happy to
share?
-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch@basesys.com>

asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm just wondering how other people cost/charge for * boxes
> they have installed in small businesses?
> 
> Asterisk is such a complex beast and is capable of so much it
> seems equally complex to figure out a charging model!?
I agree.
> I'm contemplating installing a pair of servers at a small
> company with two separate locations, one main aim is to
> provide a IAX link between the two but I'm sure they will want other
> features!? 
Once they find out what it can do, they maight want all kinds of things.
> Renting vs purchasing? Support contracts? etc?
Absolutely!
> Does anybody have any pearls of wisdom about this topic they are
> happy to share? 
There was a discussion about this on the -biz list. That's probably the
better venue, as this list is more technically oriented.

It's a good question, though: every system is like a custom app, so
pricing will have to take into account how much development is going to
be required.


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