{"id":4722,"date":"2008-12-17T11:52:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T15:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.voipsupply.com\/?p=4722"},"modified":"2016-07-19T09:38:41","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T13:38:41","slug":"asterisk-popularity-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/asterisk-popularity-grows\/","title":{"rendered":"Asterisk&#8217;s Popularity Continues to Grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unless you&#8217;ve been living under a rock for the last few years, you know all about Asterisk&#8217;s meteoric rise to national acclaim. The open source telephony platform, originally constructed by Mark Spencer to avoid paying an ungodly sum of money for a telephone system, just <a href=\"\/blog\/voip-insider\/happy-9th-birthday-asterisk\/\">recently turned nine years old<\/a> &#8211; and shows no signs of slowing down.<\/p>\n<p>According to a release published this morning,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/portal\/site\/google\/?ndmViewId=news_view&amp;newsId=20081217005098&amp;newsLang=en\" target=\"_blank\"> Asterisk has been downloaded over 1.5 million times in 2008 &#8211; the highest one year total ever<\/a>. Oh &#8211; and that number is more than 50 percent of last years number.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps what is most intriguing about this announcement is not the fact that Asterisk has been downloaded 1.5 million times in 2008 &#8211; but the fact that the number could be substantially larger in 2009. Why?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You might not have noticed, but the economy sucks. People love free and when you have little money &#8211; a DIY Asterisk deployment starts looking a little more realistic.<\/li>\n<li>Asterisk truly is a more then a phone system. Thanks to it&#8217;s flexibility, folks are now embracing the platform as a way to create voicemail systems, conference bridges and gateways among other things.<\/li>\n<li>The community continues to grow. The community is as active and involved today, as it was in 2003 when I first start working with it.<\/li>\n<li>Digium is doing the right things. It is not easy balancing the needs of a for-profit business with that of a open source project, but to date Digium continues to work diligently to ensure that when one side wins, so to does the other.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now open source isn&#8217;t for everyone. However it is continuing to gain acceptance with customers at all levels &#8211; and I bet you&#8217;d have a hard time naming too many others in this space who can lay claim to the fact that their software got into the hands of over 1.5 million people in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>How&#8217;s that for proof that open source is a viable solution?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unless you&#8217;ve been living under a rock for the last few years, you know all about Asterisk&#8217;s meteoric rise to national acclaim. The open source telephony platform, originally constructed by Mark Spencer to avoid paying an ungodly sum of money for a telephone system, just recently turned nine years old &#8211; and shows no signs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-voip-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4722"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203843,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4722\/revisions\/203843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}