[Asterisk-Users] Sangoma VS. Digium

[Andrew Kohlsmith]

On April 7, 2005 01:53 pm, Craig Guy wrote:
> the server they're going into (Dell poweredge 750's).  When a GPL'd
> hardware design costs more than an entire proprietary server (including 
> chassis, motherboard, dual hard disks and remote access card) then there is
> something very wrong in the market.  I do not possibly see how a quarter
> length PCI card should cost more than an entire rack mount server.  IMHO

First off, the TExxxP cards are not GPL.
Second, it's all economies of scale.  How many Dell Poweredge 750s does Dell 
sell a MONTH compared to how many TExxxPs Digium sells in a year?

There's nothing "wrong" with it; Digium is charging what they believe the 
market will bear.  That's capitalism.  If you can do it cheaper, do it and 
make a fortune.  I know MANY PCI boards which are upwards of several dozen 
thousand dollars.  Again, they are charging what the market will bear.

Now granted, high-end signal processing and acquisition cards are a slightly 
different market than what you're talking about.  :-)

-A.