Asterisk was announced the clear winner of this year’s BOSSIE (Best of Open Source Software) Award for VOIP Telephony by InfoWorld. InfoWorld acknowledged the superiority of Asterisk above other open source VOIP technologies such as OpenPBX and FreeSwitch in their 2007 BOSSIE Special Report. According to InfoWorld,

“Asterisk is by far the most mature and scalable of the lot, and it’s taking the VoIP world by storm. Yes, it’s hideously complex in places, but also immensely configurable, and compatible with darn near everything.”

High praise indeed! But what makes it even more special is not only the fact that Asterisk won an award and much praise but that it won an award in an cateogry that is considered by many, including InfoWorld, to be “the most significant trend in networking today“.

The fact that Asterisk bagged the award is not really surprising considering the recent events that took place in the telephony world. If you recall last month we reported Genesys’ decision to support the Asterisk® open source IP PBX platform. The day it was announced was a big day for Asterisk and the entire open source world. After all Genesys’ IS the leading provider of software for major contact centres, which means that the Asterisk platform will, after the majority Genesys’s client have transitioned, be the leading VOIP telephony platform used in contact centres worldwide. With this award Asterisk scores another point for open source telephony. As Mark Spencer, CTO and founder of Digium, said,”Receiving this industry recognition from IDG and InfoWorld is not only a win for Digium, but the entire open source telephony community as a whole. Digium is committed to taking Asterisk to even greater heights and developing new ways for businesses all over the world to experience cost savings and flexibility never before possible with proprietary VoIP solutions.”

The support of Genesys’ and the award given to Asterisk though is but a reflection of th Asterisk team’s commitment to providing the best possible open source telephony engine and tool kit for FREE. It is true that Asterisk offers “unheard off flexibility in a world of proprietary communications”. It is also true that it “empowers developers and integrators to create advanced communication solutions” at the lowest price possible - zero. And it is true that Asterisk offers excellent support to its users.

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