And development costs? To develop a card is not cheap, unless you are in China :)
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 3:42 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] RE: "open" asterisk? 10 Million is ca 10,000 boards/licenses if you assume 1000 USD in average. I know the Digium boards are some of the cheapest around, but the actual production cost should be below 150 USD for a 4xE1/T1 of this type, meaning that they still should have very decent margins. jan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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/200 >8 >-108 >2_3-5737703.html > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 7:04 PM >To: [email protected] >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----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aidan Van >Dyk >Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 8:51 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [Asterisk-Users] RE: "open" asterisk? > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. > > > >_______________________________________________ >--Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- > >Asterisk-Users mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >_______________________________________________ >--Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- > >Asterisk-Users mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > > >_______________________________________________ >--Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- > >Asterisk-Users mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >_______________________________________________ >--Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- > >Asterisk-Users mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > > > > _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
