[KenWittlief]

BTW - innovationFirst will sell their products to anyone - for most equipment like this, the sell price is about 7 times what it costs to manufacture each unit.

thats because there is a lot of engineering design, development, field testing, field support, warrenty coverage on a low volume product like this - if you tried to build one yourself from scratch, then write your own SW to make it run, it would end up costing you hundreds of thousands of $$$ in engineering development, and would take at least 4 months to get the first prototype up and running.