Open Source now has another strategic partnership. Digium and Bandwidth.com partner to further develop open source software.

This goes to show that even more small business and large enterprises are now very much paying attention to the power of The Asterisk PBX.

I think, the best decision that I have ever made was to quit my job at a small time VoIP Provider in 2001 and focus completely on Asterisk.

Over the years I have written 2 channel drivers, have spent significant amount of time educating [yelling] at newbies in IRC, speaking and exhibiting about Asterisk at various trade events and countless hours beating the hell out of various configurations of Asterisk with all the fancy testing equipment I have access to… Then we cannot forget my iax service project, which has been [ab]used by so many.

Granted neither of my channel drivers won any awards, but they both served their purpose, for their time. Then others have gladly contributed significant additional code, perhaps more code than I have contributed, to make each channel driver that much better.

Now major forces like Digium and Bandwidth.com are truly stepping up to provide the much needed drive and focus to continue developing and promoting Asterisk.

Asterisk Phreaks Untie!

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