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From: Alex Balashov <abalashov@evaristesys.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 5:58 PM
To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion <asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com>
Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] PBX Functionality for Less than the Price of a KeySystem (3Com Asterisk IP Telephony Appliance)
Alex Balashov wrote:
> The price can float more freely,
> far less anchored to the underlying production costs.
To expand on this a little bit:
Say you want to be a wheat farmer. Wheat doesn't have a lot of
differentiation points that have a grandiose impact on price. Sure,
there are different types of wheat, grown under different conditions,
and so on, but as much as they're different, they are also, in very
significant ways, the same -- it's still wheat. Wheat is wheat.
The agricultural processes involved in producing wheat are well-known
and easily discoverable. There are abundant quantities of wheat
ubiquitously consumed across a broad swath of economic sectors and
market segments, at all levels of income and so on. So, the real
question in going into wheat production is simply whether you want to do
it -- that is, whether you want to and are able to make the investments
in capital machinery, land, seed, and so on, and whether you can make it
scale in a way that is competitive and make it efficient enough to
compete with modern, high-volume agro-industrial conglomerates.
Aside from that, though, it's not really hard to figure out what the
machinery costs, what the land costs, what the seed costs, and what kind
of pricing your competitors are getting from this source, that source,
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