[rant] I wish my local reseller would 'dump' the product, or at least offer it cheaper without support. The digium PRI cards IMHO are way too expensive for those of us who are familiar with them and are only interested in warranty support. I will probably soon be buying another 5 of them and spending over $A10,000 in the process. The cards are more expensive than 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 bring on the competition, Asterisk should divorce itself from Digium, the sooner the better. Asterisk is a software product and should stand alone and not be subsidised by the hardware. Marks salary should come from selling trainig and Asterisk support services, not hardware. If Digium gets money from selling Digum hardware, where then is the incentive for Asterisk to support alternative hardware (BRI for example). Imagine if Linus was employed by Intel, Linux would only be an empty shell of its current self with no support for embedded platforms, Motorola CPU's, WRT54G's, etc. [/rant]
Craig ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Svensson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 7:43 PM Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Sangoma VS. Digium > On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Matteo Brancaleoni wrote: > > > I hate to say that, but the problem is that Digium doesn't do this. > > They allow resellers to do market dumping, by not imposing fixed > > list prices to resellers, they also compete with they're own > > distributors/resellers by offering the cards online and by offering > > services directly to end users. > > In this way they're destroying they're own reseller network > > and there's no commercial gain into supporting the end user > > (as resellers). > > Resellers are almost universally a useless money-sink. Most add no value > at all, they are simply another logistics point. Distributors, on the > other hand, are usually very knowlegable and are able to support their > customers (the resellers) quite well. > > My advice: always *always* buy from as early in the channel as possible. > Prices are better and the support is _way_ better. > > Of course, if you are not familiar with the problem space for which you > are purchasing a solution then resellers can add a lot of value. > > Peter > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
