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visionik
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About visionik
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Comment #36669939
Three emails are not "best efforts". 4.5 months notice is not "best effort". My opinion on best effort: I founded, ran, and sold a SaaS company used by some of the most well known …
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Comment #4696969
Thank you for the feedback and for pointing out the typo on the technology page. We discussed the "language" issue extensively before this announcement. The fundamental challenge w…
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Comment #2035311
Fuck that noise. Full Disclosure: I am the largest shareholder in Voxeo. I never went to college. I'm allergic to dust mites. I'm a habitual abuser of allergy medicines. I've liste…
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Comment #2000859
Thank you for asking. "Enterprise grade" can be a vague marketing term. This is what Voxeo means when we say PRISM is "enterprise grade": 1. Fault tolerant: Including the ability t…
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Comment #2000795
As Voxeo's CEO, I guarantee there will be no Tropo Ribbons ;)
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Comment #2000765
Hi - and thank you sincerely for the points you made. I am writing this to provide context, not to disagree with you... Relatively speaking, Voxeo was as cheap 10 years ago as Twil…
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Comment #1999322
as akalsey said, Tropo is built on PRISM. http://www.voxeo.com/prism PRISM is a highly scalable, reliable, and extensible communications application server. It's a very proven plat…
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Comment #1999296
Woah there, your post is misleading and I want to make sure no one is confused as a result. You said you inquired about Voxeo/Tropo but the pricing you mention above has absolutely…
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Comment #1997792
You make a great point, but it's also somewhat disingenuous ;) It takes some time to learn how to use a platform. It takes some time to code on a platform. The actual writing of co…
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Comment #1997752
Hi - Tropo should cost about the same as Twilio depending on your use case, but Tropo does alot more than Twilio for a roughly equivalent price. For example. Twilio just does SMS, …
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Comment #1997735
That's a great summary. A good analogy is that Tropo is 30% harder to learn than Twilio... but it can do 300% more than Twilio. We've got a big release coming that makes Tropo much…
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Comment #1997717
Thank you for a great summary of Tropo advantages! -Jonathan (CEO, Voxeo)
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Comment #1997715
If Tropo can do anything to help you in China please let us know. Asia is a key market for Voxeo/Tropo. We have two data centers there (Singapore and Hong Kong), as well as an R&D,…
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Comment #1997708
Thank you! We are working our actual and virtual asses of to make Tropo the best developer platform for all communications applications (not just voice and sms: also IM, Twitter, t…
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Comment #1997702
International is hard. I know from experience. That's where Tropo has one clear advantage over Twilio. Tropo is built on the Voxeo network, which has ten years of international exp…
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Comment #1997690
Freeswitch rocks. Great stuff, from a great team too. If you like Freeswitch, you'd probably like Tropo. Tropo lets you program directly in Javscript and other languages, just like…
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Comment #1997674
Absolutely agree. Twilio is great at marketing and evangelism. Twilio is way ahead on that front. That's their DNA. Voxeo is great at feature innovation and platform implementation…
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Comment #1997658
I'm Voxeo's CEO. First - Danielle I have the utmost respect for you and the marketing momentum you've been able to build around Twilio. However, saying the "quote is completely fab…
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Comment #1997539
I'm Voxeo's CEO. Thanks for the summary of what Twilio makes possible. What nivertech (who you responded to) knows and was trying to say is this: With Voxeo (and others) a competen…