I think you mean attacking each other
Or perhaps attracting each other but I will go for the first.
First of all, nobody was attacking you. You made some comments that are true but NOT only features of Toshiba. The reason I decided to point this out is NOT to attack you at all, but to merely point out that Toshiba is but one company that does this, and YES, MOST companies offer backward compatibility in Key Systems, they have done since I started in the mid 90's anyway.
Where you DID make a misleading comment though was, "By using a Toshiba system you will guarantee all older Toshiba cards and new Toshiba cards (ones not yet released) will work in the system." Toshiba will say (as all phone companies do) that you older line cards and sets MAY work with newer STRATA CTX cabinets. When you're sick of your phones for whatever reason, they can get you to contact THEM for upgrades and can assure you problems are fixed, it's an ancient MAC trick of all phone companies to retain tired clients.
So while you ar happy with a fairly decent system (and rightly so), you are also quite clearly indicating that this is WHY you chose Toshiba, even though everyone else does it too.
That therefore implies what TOSHIBA does and others don't. As for the comment that Toshiba guarantees that 'new Toshiba cards (ones not released yet) will work in the system', that is false.
Toshiba does NOT 'guarantee' that NEW cards will be accepted by YOUR system, you were either lied to or misunderstood the salesman.
They MAY make cards for newer versions of the STRATA CTX cabinets that MAY work with the CTX but they don't guarantee they will and in most cases they don't, after a few years you are SOL for CHEAP upgrades.
WHY would I say that, you ask?
It's not to attack you,it's to inform the person to whom you implied that Toshiba is the only one with such a practice, which is incorrect. If he was guided by your comments, he would be making a decision based on misinformation.
As for your system, you are right, you can run over 100 ports in your system, BUT, the system is designed for the small to medium business market and to compete with old industry standard 8X16's without expandability, NEC does this, as does Nortel and Mitel and most others now.
The idea for being ABLE to expand is to bridge markets, just like everyone else, and offer port expansion, which until he mid 90's was pretty much impossible without adding expansion cabs or a new KSU.
I was actually thinking of the Strata DK's not the CTX. My mistake, correction is noted.
Were you trying to attack me or something? :^O
