I usually try my luck here on my blogs first when I need help in finding a service that is needed for my company.  So here it goes

I am looking for a phone system for our new offices in Santa Cruz that is not based on regular phones but VOIP.  I looked at Vonage but it was not geared towards business, as you can't have a phone attendant to request pushing a specific extension to reach a department.  I also looked at Packet8, it was a good solution but very expensive as you will have to have a full line for each employee that needs a phone on their desk to make calls, it came out to about $350 per month + $1400 startup fee for 9 phones in the office with a fax line.

They suggested having only 3 phones in the office, one for sales, one in the conference room and one for management, the rest of the team can use the phone in the conference room which sounded lame to me to ask employees to go to the conference room to make a call or use their cell phone. That costs about $185 per month.

Anyone heard of a different company that can make this work for us?

Thanks for your suggestion in advance

This week, I have been at two corporations in San Antonio, Texas and Birmingham, Alabama teaching TestComplete 6.0, a SOLID automation testing tool that is gaining extreme momentum and acceptance in the industry.

I completed the training tonight for the Alabama company, they were truly terrific, very nice people and I enjoyed their company for the last few days, while teaching TestComplete 6.0.  It was emotional for me personally as they use Delphi as their main development tool.  Seeing Delphi running on their machine, and how successful their product is, I felt proud!  It has been almost 3 years since I wrote any code in Delphi for any customer but I have to say, every time I see Delphi code or get together with Delphi developers, it always bring a sweet spot to my heart.

I head home in few hours after a long week in airports and teaching every day.

Next week, I head to beautiful SYDNEY, Australia to teach there as well for 1 week, I will try to blog more and keep this blog alive and interesting. 

Cheers!