Malcolm Davenport November 5th, 2007

I woke up on Saturday morning and did the usual

1) Feed the cat.  He’s hungry and he won’t quit meowing.

2) Hit the treadmill.  I need to lose a few pounds, and it’s the best way.

3) Make my Slimfast breakfast shake.  See #2.

4) Check the Internets for any news I might have missed Friday night.

Most of the time, I miss pretty pedestrian stuff.  Microsoft squashes another company, Google acquires another company, Apple releases another whizbang product…that sort of stuff.

Well, this time, I missed something different.  Google news linked to an article that reported:

“Sangoma Casts Derision on Digium’s Annoucement of ‘Industry First’ Eight Port Telephony Card”

Dude, that is so sweet, not.  Let’s find out what the beef is.

“Not long after Digium announced its new product this week, Sangoma shot off an email to TMCnet alerting us to the fact that this “industry first” was in fact, achieved in November 2006, when Sangoma released its A400 card, an analog card that was the “first in the industry” to achieve 8 ports on one base card. The card starts off with a minimum of 2 ports on one blade, but is shipped in increments of 2, 4, 6, 8 or 12 per base card — and can expand even further, up to 48 ports, with a Remora expansion card.”

So, before I bring out my own fishing pole for casting derision, I’d like to point out that by this unit of measure, Digium first shipped our 24-port TDM2400P in December of 2005.  That’d be 11 months prior to November 2006 for the mathematically challenged.

That said, the Digium TDM2400P is a twenty-four (24) port card.  The Digium AEX800 is an eight (8) port card.  And, the Sangoma A400 is a twelve (12) port card.

Here’s why:

Waiter, I’d like a table for 8.

“Here you are sir, table for 12.”

I just wanted a table for 8.

“No, sir, a 12 seat table is what you really wanted.  We’re just going to leave these other 4 seats open and we’ll charge you gratuity since your table is over 8 seats.  Restaurant policy after all.”

No sir, I don’t like it.

or…

Used Car Sales Guy, I’d like a V-8 engine in my truck.

“Here you go sir, a truck with a V-12″

I only wanted 8 pistons.

“Right, you’ve got 8 pistons in this V-12, sir”

Yeah…but I’ve also got 4 more that I didn’t need and my insurance premium’s higher.

…

That’s enough fun, yes?  No?  Okay, just a little more.

Derision sounds like a fun word, and it makes for dictional cuteness; but, it means ridicule and mockery.  And, we wouldn’t want to be engaging in ridicule or mockery, especially if our premise was with fault, would we? 

Cheers.

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