Asterisk in the News

Lot's of news today about Asterisk, including the release of version 1.4.The linked article describes the new features, and of course most of the VoIP-related bloggers are commenting. Digium also released an appliance development kit.

In addition, there is this piece from Network Word: University dumps Cisco VoIP for open-source Asterisk

I'm still not sure that open source makes sense (yet) for larger enterprises, but for tech-savvy organizations open-source presents a tremendous opportunity for cost savings as the network world article demonstrates.