> 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. ;) _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users