[Asterisk-Users] Sangoma VS. Digium

[Rich Adamson]

> 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.  :-)

Or, he could be stuck with a Nortel pbx where the T1 card is something
like $5k, which doesn't include the software necessary to actually
make the card do what he wants. ;)