I love receiving the end-of-year holiday letters. My wife writes our family Holiday Letter and it is always a literary masterpiece. I have stopped even making the attempt to add my two cents to the letter as whatever I write eventually is edited to non-recognition by the time the letter goes to "press."
This blog is different: I get to write this with no editorial input what-so-ever (for those reading this, that part is obvious.) With much fanfare, I give you the 2007 Junction Networks year-end Recap Letter:
2007 was truly a fantastic year for Junction Networks. We started the year by launching our Hosted PBX product and Junction Networks being named as one of CRN Magazine's 15 Leading VoIP Companies. The Hosted PBX was launched as a compliment to our already successful PSTN Gateway product line. It received some good traction, but the overwhelming feedback was that an easier-to-use interface was needed. We therefore spent the summer of 2007 creating our OnSIP Hosted PBX interface which we launched in October. By breaking the rules, e.g. open source, open standards, open API and no per-seat licenses, we created quite a stir. We ended this year by being named the 4th most innovative VoIP company for 2007.
First of all we could not have done this without our customers. Obviously a business is not in business if it does not have any customers. Junction Networks is lucky that we have both customers and fans. We have a customer who gave us a fantastic plug on Slashdot. Our WWW traffic increased by over 5x for a couple days following that post. To all of our customers, Thank You for a terrific 2007. We hope that we have lived up to our end of the bargain and we look forward to our 2008 offerings.
VoIP is still an emerging technology. There are still some bumps in the road, but our technical support teams are the best around. To everyone at Junction Networks who makes sure that our customer's questions are answered both pre and post sales, thank you and keep up the great work. Sure, Junction Networks is a VoIP company, but more importantly, we are a software company. Our engineering staff are truly miracle workers. Over the course of the summer they created a world-class Ruby-on-Rails, Web 2.0 Hosted PBX interface entirely from scratch.
All I can say is Amazing! To our customers and the Junction Networks family, I thank you all for a wonderful 2007 and I am looking forward to 2008 with much anticipation.
Sincerely,
Michael D. Oeth, CEO
Junction Networks, Inc.
12/19/2007