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Intuitive Voice Technology Calls Out other Asterisk Competitors - Asterisk Clone Wars Have Begun...
Originally posted on VoIP & Gadgets Blog, here: http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/asterisk/intuitive-voice-technology-calls-out-other-asterisk-competitors-asteri.asp.
In a news release, Intuitive Voice (News - Alert) Technology is calling out other Asterisk-based solutions. First, Intuitive Voice Technology (IVT) espouses their 3,500 deployments as well they should. They then follow this back-slapping good news with a claim that "competitors clamor to keep pace with industry's most innovating, easy-to-use Asterisk (News - Alert)-based PBX". Them's fightin' words! They then stoke the fires some more when CEO Chris Jones states they he believes IVT's offering is blazing new trails in the industry, as evidenced by industry competitors who are mimicking the company's Evolution PBX 3.0 - released in September 2007. Specifically, Mr. Jones commented on the similarities to Evolution PBX 3.0 in Fonality's (News - Alert) recent announcement of their latest release. “Many of the features introduced in their new release are similar to Intuitive Voice Technology’s Evolution PBX 3.0 which was introduced September of 2007 and released publicly in October of 2007.”
IVT then points o these similar "copycat" features which include follow-me/find me, cell phone integration, presence detection, and simultaneous ring.
There's one feature Intuitive Voice Technology neglected to mention that most other Asterisk solutions don't have but IVT does- and that's call screening. In my Cool Stuff at ITEXPO post I espoused IVT's Evolution PBX 3.0 product and how it's one of the few Asterisk-based solutions that supports call screening.
Just yesterday in my Voiceroute article, Voiceroute (News - Alert) was claiming their Asterisk front-end GUI was better than anything on the market, including FreePBX and now today Intuitive Voice Technology is claiming they are the "best of the best" in the Asterisk universe.
The Asterisk (Asteroids?) Wars have begun...
Or even better - to quote Yoda - "The Asterisk Clone Wars have begun..."
Of course, the Asterisk Clone Wars been going on behind the scene for awhile. If you're in the Asterisk community you already knew this. It's getting almost as bad as the VoIP Clone Wars.
 Well, soon we shall have a battle royale between all the Asterisk players... Digium's (News - Alert) Asterisk vs. Trixbox vs CentPBX vs. Elastix vs. Fonality vs. Intuitive Voice Technology vs. Voiceroute vs. PBX-in-a-Flash vs. PBXact, etc. etc. It'll be Clash of the Titans! Fun times ahead for the Asterisk community.  Competition is a good thing and will help drive Asterisk to only get better & better.
Actual IVT news release after the jump...
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