[Asterisk-Users] RE: "open" asterisk?

[gw at adcomcorp.com]

I wouldn't believe 10mil/yr.   Maybe if they had other non-asterisk
products, but that just does not seem reasonable if you look at asterisk
at this stage.  Besides, are they a public company? Are they required to
report to the SEC?  That makes a big difference.  I mean realistically,
a 900 dollar software product or less than 10k hardware product needs a
lot of sales to hit around 10mil.  And the tech support would have
enourmous overhead.  

But if digium is also doing custom ivr's and such, you can easily do a
few million there, however you have to have well over 100 employees.

Oh unrelated, I have talked to people who tend to hype up their company.
I feel it is bad business, but have heard people saying 'yes I will hit
5 million this year, and have no loss'.  Later, I have seen them go
under.

Greg


-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of calvis
Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 10:27 PM
To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion'
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] RE: "open" asterisk?

Maybe this will open your eyes :)

This article says Digium has sales of 10 million per year.


http://news.com.com/Is+the+telephone+industry+ready+for+open+source/2008
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2_3-5737703.html



-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of
gw at adcomcorp.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 7:04 PM
To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] RE: "open" asterisk?

Millions of dollars in hardware sales?  I admit I don't know what there
sales level is, but I doubt that it's 1 mil at this stage in the game.
And, if it were, that has nothing to do with profit.  You can make 1 mil
in sales in a year but still walk away with a net loss.

Without the community where would digium be? Don't know, probably doing
the same but in a proprietary format, giving people no choice but to
shell out the big bucks.

I for one am happy they started up the project, and if they did in turn
make Asterisk proprietary, I would probably shell out the cash since it
offers what no other pbx can offer.

Greg

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Aidan Van
Dyk
Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 8:51 AM
To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] RE: "open" asterisk?

gw at adcomcorp.com wrote:

> As for the people who would suspect digium is strong-arming anyone, 
> hell, if it weren't for them you wouldn't have asterisk would you?
> And therefore probably no openpbx either, and we all would be spending

> thousands to do what asterisk can do for free.

And if it weren't for the community of indentured slaves and testers,
where would Digium be, with no users, contributors, or bug-reporters?
Never mind the no millions of dollars of hardware sales.  It *should* be
a symbiotic relationship.



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