Marc Spencer & Asterisk PBX Moment

Note: Okay, I hope you enjoyed my obligatory Marc Spencer picture. I was reading Tristan Rhodes post about the current Asterisk product lineup and some of the recent developments. I think Asterisk is heading in the right direction.

SwitchVox is a good step to compete directly with Shoretel and Trixtangle hehe. I hope they keep decent margins in the formula to take care of there fiercely loyal Asterisk resellers and consultants. The best thing that can happen is to have the margins left for the resellers so that keep a large volume of competent Asterisk installers that can support the product on a large scale.

I like where the Lumenvox's speech reconition product is going also. Interactive voice application is already big and is only going to get bigger.

Excerpt from his article:

Digium is the company behind Asterisk, the popular open source PBX. Digium was founded in 1999 by Mark Spencer, the creator of Asterisk. Since then, Asterisk has been deployed around the world on millions on computers. Despite that fact, Asterisk still does not have a large market share of the PBX market. Why is this? In the past, there were many reasons for this: