On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Michael Gende <mgende@gendesign.com> wrote:
Hey Steve,

I know that Asterisk was used, we were once using it ourselves and had Digium produce a CAMA stack (as you noted, no great shakes, I think one guy did it in a weekend. It sure wasn't priced that way!).

LOL ... I'm sure you've heard some variation of this one:

"Nikola Tesla visited Henry Ford at his factory, which was having some kind of difficulty.  Ford asked Tesla if he could help identify the problem area.  
Tesla walked up to a wall of boilerplate and made a small X in chalk on one of the plates.  Ford was thrilled, and told him to send an invoice.

The bill arrived, for $10,000.  Ford asked for a breakdown.  Tesla sent another invoice, indicating a $1 charge for marking the wall with an X, and $9,999 for knowing where to put it."

Taken from: http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/where.asp

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Moy