When the times get tough the tough choose cheaper, open-source phone systems. Such seems to be the theme of Fonality CFO Dan Rosenthal’s chat with me about the company’s latest $12 million venture funding led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson Growth Fund with participation from existing investor … Read More »
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Editor’s Note: with the recent launch of GigaOm’s, Ostatic, which promotes Open Source by matching users to the right OS tools and resources, we offer this essay on the virtues and vices of OS dogma, by Found|READ contributor Chris Lyman. … Read More »
Editor’s Note: Chris Lyman is the founder and CEO of the enterprise VoIP service provider, Fonality, in Los Angeles. He’s also one of our favorite bloggers, penning candid and humorous essays on the many challenges he faces at his Janitor’s … Read More »
Dell begins bundling Fonality’s open-source software with its enterprise servers today, its latest gambit to compete in the already-crowded VoIP market — this time targeting companies with 125 employees or fewer. This is fertile ground: Analyst Alan Weckel of research firm Dell ‘Oro … Read More »
Chris Lyman, the founder of the VoIP startup, Fonality, blogs under the moniker Janitor– which he prefers to his other title: CEO. Chris has shared some of his management ideas with us here, too including Startup Math: 1 + … Read More »
Things have been tough as of late for plain vanilla VoIP service providers, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that voice over IP is over as a technology. As my good friend Andy Abramson points out, the focus in the future is going to be on … Read More »
