Open-Source Telephony Goes Mainstream
Note: Rich has post this great article on his blog about his trip to Digium's headquarters to meeting with Mark Spencer.
In the last few years the communications industry has been taken by storm through the invention of an open-source communications platform named Asterisk invented by Digium (www.digium.com) founder Mark Spencer. An article written for the January 2004 issue of Internet Telephony magazine by yours truly was titled, “Open Source Telephony. . . The Next Big Thing,” predicted open-source communications would become a huge phenomenon and it has perhaps exceeded everyone’s expectations of growth.
Digium is headquartered in what seems at first to be an unlikely place. . . Huntsville, Alabama. In fact if you drive far enough away from the company’s headquarters you might imagine there is no technology in the area but instead an entire economy dedicated to farming.
As it turns out, a close look at some of the buildings in the Huntsville area shows a preponderance of these edifices are devoted to jet propulsion. Rocket science it seems is big business in Alabama and could explain why your rocket science jokes don’t go over too well in this part of the south.
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As it turns out, a close look at some of the buildings in the Huntsville area shows a preponderance of these edifices are devoted to jet propulsion. Rocket science it seems is big business in Alabama and could explain why your rocket science jokes don’t go over too well in this part of the south.
Click Here to Continue Reading Rich's Article
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