Sangoma and HP to Partner?
Posted: May 4th, 2010 | Author: Garrett Smith | Filed under: VoIP News | 4 Comments »I just caught this over at TMCNet. Seems Sangoma is rumored to be partnering with HP.
There isn’t much available as neither side won’t comment, but it’s interesting enough to chew on.
If Sangoma and HP have indeed partnered, I betting one of three things will come out it:
- A low cost Open Source PBX appliance
- An SMB IP Phone system
- Or they’re adding Fax over IP capabilities to their all-in-one printers using Sangoma hardware
Now I’ve got no inside knowledge here. These are purely guesses.
What’s yours?
HP lost Cisco VoIP due to the 3com merger, so they are looking for someone who knows voice and has functioning hardware and existing customers…
@ John
Interesting thought. Why not go with someone like Digium though?
Sangoma has traditionally been a “components” company – not one that provides the entire solution, especially from a business communications systems perspective.
HP and Asterisk….ah… I think not Garrett.
Asterisk is disruptive, innovative, revolutionary etc, but HP needs to compete with CISCO, and Asterisk ain’t the route. Sangoma is not an Asterisk company, they are a comm’s hardware company. I think HP or Dell with use them for comm’s in a UC platform, maybe OCS or something along those lines. You got me thinking here!!!
Pat.
@Pat
When I said Digium, I was referring to something with Switchvox.
I never thought OCS, but that makes a lot of sense. After all Sangoma’s NetBoarder software is designed for Windows applications.