[Asterisk-Users] Re: Compatible Asterisk Connectivity Cards : Sangoma

[Matt Florell]

I would be very suprised if Digium allows even a mention of Sangoma
cards on the asterisk.org site. Digium owns the "Asterisk" trademark
and the asterisk.org site. Sangoma is a direct competitor to Digium
and their primary source of income, sales of hardware telco interface
cards(both analog and digital).

It makes sense from Digium's point of view, why would a company like
Pepsi advertise that Coca-cola has a similar product on a Pepsi-owned
website?

It is important to remember that Asterisk is a commercial product (not
strictly a community project) that is entirely owned and very heavily
supported and developed by the employees of one company: Digium.

Digium makes the majority of their revenues by selling telco interface
cards(not selling software licenses), and Asterisk is at the quality
level it is at now because of how many people Digium has been able to
hire based on the revenues from the tens of thousands of cards it has
sold in the last 5 years.

If everyone stopped buying Digium cards and switched to another vendor
then Asterisk development would slow down and probably be less
organized.

It is important to mention that Sangoma has contributed many code
patches and new features to Asterisk in the last few years,
essentially giving Digium code. While it is in no way close to the
amount of code written by Digium employees, it is still a contribution
worth mentioning.

This is in no way a review or comparison of the cards themselves, just
an explanation of Asterisk, Digium and Sangoma and how they fit
together.

MATT---



On 4/3/06, Tomislav Parčina <tparcina at lama.hr> wrote:
> In article <20060403034132.26792.qmail at web37610.mail.mud.yahoo.com>, heidim06 at yahoo.com says...
> > Above products will work with any commercially
> > available motherboard in the market.  This we have
> > proven true because we have at least 5 different
> > servers that we have installed them to.  And take note
> > of their on-board echo cancellers, simply works
> > superb!
>
> I have one question. How much money has Sangoma give to Asterisk for code developing? I'm interested in this because buying card, I would like to be sure I'm helping developing Asterisk.
>
> Company I work for will buy card which I choose. I don't care does it cost a little bit more if it's that what it takes to make * better and my job a little more easier.
>
> P.S.
> Just trying to help
>
>
> --
> Tomislav Parcina
> tparcina#lama.hr
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