asterisk users - Apr 2008 - ISPBX Announces COGOBLUE Interface and PBX Appliances

Hi Everyone,

My name is Matt Signorello and I'm responsible for wholesale dealers
sales here at ISPBX. (www.ispbx.com)

ISPBX is a New Jersey based systems developer marketing a series of
solid state Asterisk appliances since 2005. For the last year we've been
working on a new strategy for helping dealers install Asterisk
appliances into the end user customer base in a smarter more profitable
way. 

Officially our launch date isn't until next Wednesday the 9th of April,
however because some dealers having problems with Asterisk NOW we've
decided to announce today and the official press release is available
for download at
http://www.ispbx.com/press/ispbx_cogoblue_press_040208.pdf

ISPBX is proud to announce COGOBLUE the 3rd generation of Asterisk GUI
tools. COGOBLUE<http://www.cogoblue.com/>  is a true "Drag and
Drop"
Asterisk GUI available on a series of ISPBX appliances for small to
medium businesses.

For the first time dealers installing these ip-pbx appliances can
quickly implement an entire PBX installation without the need for manual
config file editing. COGOBLUE allows you to configure your system just
by dragging and dropping visual icons on a display pane.

Trunks, Extensions, Voicemail, Call groups, Auto attendants, etc etc can
all be configured simply by dragging and dropping the icons into their
appropriate place. Using a visual display to implement a call flow is
just a smarter, faster (and more profitable way) to implement Asterisk
installations for your customers.

Also when you are hired at a later date to provide additional 'moves and
changes' support times are shorter and more profitable because
technicians don't need to re-learn how it was previously configured -
instantly you can see in a visual display the entire PBX configuration.

We've provided some screen shots and video install demo's for you here
http://www.cogoblue.com/tourcogo.shtml

There is also a more extensive manual available here
http://www.cogoblue.com/help

The COGOBLUE GUI is available on a series of Asterisk appliances for
various hardware and user requirements
http://www.ispbx.com/product_matrix.shtml

We look forward to bringing about a smarter more profitable way to
provide Asterisk installations and meet your end users requirements and
look forward to your inquiries.

If you have questions please feel free to email me at info at ispbx.com or
feel free to give me a call directly.

Thanks,

Matt Signorello
Managing Partner
ISPBX LLC
Direct: 973-841-2060

Matt,

I'm sure I won't be the only one to point out that your posts belongs in
asterisk-biz, not asterisk-users.

In article <1207240705.4049.39.camel at localhost>,
Matt Signorello <astlist at ispbx.com> wrote:
> [...]
> however because some dealers having problems with Asterisk NOW
If that is the justification for bringing your announcement forward,
then...
> COGOBLUE<http://www.cogoblue.com/>  is a true "Drag and
Drop"
> Asterisk GUI available *on a series of ISPBX appliances*
... doesn't really help people who might (you perceive) be looking for
an alternative to AsteriskNOW, unless they discard their existing
hardware and buy yours.

It bothers me that a thread I started about a technical issue has been
used as a pretext for a commercial promotion that doesn't really address
the issues at hand.

Cheers
Tony
-- 
Tony Mountifield
Work: tony at softins.co.uk - http://www.softins.co.uk
Play: tony at mountifield.org - http://tony.mountifield.org

On 4/3/08, Matt Signorello <astlist at ispbx.com>
wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
>  My name is Matt Signorello and I'm responsible for wholesale dealers
>  sales here at ISPBX. (www.ispbx.com)
>
Matt,

  As some others have already pointed out, this list is for
non-commercial discussion and you shouldn't have used Tony's existing
thread to announce your product.

  Anyways, I see that ispbx is "Asterisk based".  What modifications
have you made to Asterisk?  What other tools/utilities does ispbx use?
 What license(s) are those tools under?  Do you have a download area
for the source (Asterisk, etc)?

Thanks!

-- 
Kristian Kielhofner

John:

CogoBlue is a proprietary software package written by ISPBX.
It is not open source. It is currently only available on ISPBX hardware.

Check out CogoBlue, once you see what a configuration package should be,
you may have to reassess what  that "free" software is really costing
you.

The on-line documentation is extensive. There are movies that
show you the product in use.


John Faubion wrote:
>> As far as a license is concerned, we do not ship with any 
>> codecs that require licensing (we support them) and when 
>> someone purchases an ISPBX PBX system, the license for using 
>>     
>
> What Kristian was asking is, what license does the software you have
written
> use? Is it GPL? Seeing that many of us only run open source software due to
> being burned by proprietary software and systems, Cogoblue would be better
> received if it were open source.
>
> John
>
>
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