Greg Boehnlein wrote: > On Thu, 5 May 2005, Charlie Watts wrote: > >> Manjit Riat wrote: >>> Out of curiosity what's the reason? Why would they not sell phones >>> to asterisk users? Do they not trust asterisk or their phones to >>> work with each other? >> >> My guess: They don't want to compete with the folks that OEM Polycom >> hardware. Lots of commercial phone system vendors just re-brand >> Polycom phones, and Polycom doesn't want to hurt their relationship >> with those businesses. >> >> I bet that at some point one of the Asterisk-using Polycom vendors >> gets the momentum to get a better Polycom<->Asterisk user >> relationship going. The trouble is that most of the Asterisk-using >> hardware vendors are >> hardware agnostic, and don't want sign anything that says "We'll only >> sell Polycom equipment". > > This is not the case. I had a long conversation with Polycom's VP of > Product management at VON this year, and asked why they didn't want > to support Asterisk. Their response is that Asterisk has not yet > completed the Self-Certification program w/ Polycom, and that this > should be a relatively easy thing to do. They recognize that they are > missing opportunites w/ Asterisk, but they want to make sure that > their phones work correctly with it, and that Digium will take some > responsibility for certifying their code w/ Polycom. > > Last I heard, Polycom was supposed to be shipping a couple of cases > of phones to Digium for certification w/ Asterisk Business Edition.
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