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December 26, 2004
2005 Promises to be a BIG year for Open Source Communications
Once Open Source Communication solutions like Asterisk overcome the stigma of being free, the opportunity exists for the advent of open source communications solutions to introduce a major seed change within the established world-wide PBX Industry. I expect the commercial acceptance of applications like Asterisk to gain significant momentum during 2005.
At the moment, every day there are a growing number of communication enthusiasts/hobbyists who run Asterisk in their homes, in their small offices and who are starting to deploy Asterisk in place of brand name Key Systems. I should know, as during this year I quietly founded a company called: Blue Lava Software which offers “Asterisk in a Box.” During the past few months we have started to make inroads in selling our solutions to a wide range of companies, from the Fortune 500 to small home offices.
While I don’t expect: Avaya, Cisco or Nortel to be worried about the immediate success of Open Source Communications, they are amongst the group of companies most likely to be disrupted by the success of Asterisk and it’s successors.
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Posted by jeff on December 26, 2004 01:42 AM | Permalink
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