With VoipNow 2.0.2 we are focused on fixing bugs that were discovered on VoipNow 2 branch and that could not have been solved on VoipNow 2.0.1 due to various reasons (usually due to major impact). We also improved system performance and improved interoperability.
Short answer: We don’t know. As a first reaction a customer might say “How stupid can you be to don’t know when are you going to release a product update?“.
Long answer: the fact that we do not know is actually positive.
This message is for all VoipNow 2 beta testers and generally for anyone that had an input regarding VoipNow 2. In the VoipNow 2 beta session we got over 2,000 subscribers. According to our records, more than 45% installed the product, which is quite good. Based on their feedback we discovered two critical bugs – thank you! In the past two months many people saw VoipNow 2 and they really liked the product. Actually, the fact that we didn’t receive much criticism is quite disturbing, so please go ahead, tell us also about the bad things. We are listening.
I don’t think so. Only that the last Google employees I discussed with in the past four months had the same answer to a pretty common question “Do you enjoy working for Google?”. Maybe Google has a policy – “Don’t tell anyone about your work!”, but such a policy does not explain the answer “Yes, it’s very nice, there are a lot of benefits”. When I asked about benefits, not even one mention thing was related to the work. I expected at least one answer like: “I like what I do” or “I like working with smart people” or “I want to get involved in something that will charge the world”. Nope, only medical insurance, on-site meals, kindergarten, bonuses … If these guys were teached to say nothing about their work, I don’t think it’s a smart corporate move. If they don’t fell like it worth to mention the work they do there, than a bigger issue. In any case, it’s Google’s problem. What do you think?
Do you want to go to WebhostingDay 2009? You will like this event because there you can really “touch” the industry:
– you will find new business opportunities
– you will meet your competition
– you will meet your vendors
– you will make new friends
– you will have a lot of fun
Several days ago we released VoipNow 2 Beta. You can register and download beta here. The received feedback, judged on the number of received bugs is good. We gathered only four bugs till now from beta testers (we got no critical bug). VoipNow 2 changes some of the perceptions about Unified Communications systems.
After three days in New York (business and visiting old friends), I am on the way to Parallels Summit 2009
Just a short Friday night update. We released VoipNow 1.6.5, this is a bug fix release and we STRONGLY recommend you to update because it has some important fixes. Most likely will be the last VoipNow 1.x increment (when we will release patches for VoipNow 1.x the version will stay 1.6.5). Of course, we have updated the repository, the ISO Image, the VMware Image, the Amazon EC2 image and the Virtuozzo templates. Have fun.
To anticipate some questions, VoipNow 2 is close 🙂
For quite a while it was quiet on this blog. This does not mean that we forgot about it :). The truth is that we are very busy with several things.
First, it’s about software releases. VoipNow 2 is in a state when technically it can be released in the beta stage. We will do this in the next days, but first we try to solve all issues that resulted from the automatic tests. This will take maybe two weeks more. We also have some new and not so major releases that we must close, which involve a lot of work.
One of the most important things in business is to think scalable. If you want to start a business and dimension it only for the first 100 customers, than something is wrong with your plans and the business will most likely fail. We all see success stories from people that started a business without anticipating its grow, but this usually happens with businesses that offer something very innovative and in very few cases (I could not find any official statistics regarding this, but I am sure that less than the success rate in these conditions is less than 0.01%).