A couple of notable announcements from Digium yesterday:Â
- Digium announced Asterisk 1.4. Although it’s been announced at the show, it won’t actually be available until October. ISP-Planet has a great interview with Kevin Fleming.Â
- In another very interesting development, Digium also unveiled the Asterisk Appliance Development Kit. This little number is a uClinux embedded version of Asterisk targeted at small offices. According to New Telephony Magazine, the target price for these in quantity is below $500.Â
We’re starting to get a picture of where Digium will be going with their new investment dollars. In particular, the beefed up media capabilities in Asterisk 1.4, and the new programming language, sound very promising.
Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry maker Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
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One thing I don't quite get, is Digium essentially is now competing with Fonality, whom has to be there number 1 buyer of line cards.
Fonality can market really well, they have a well conceived and executed channel strategy, Digium/Asterisk doesn't appear to have that skill set, this could be an expensive lesson for them in channel and marketing.
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