History of Asterisk

[tomsyr]

Could anyone point me to a good resource of the history behind Asterisk - like a time line of significant milestones?
Yes - I can google it but does anyone have any favorites?
I'm also looking for market penetration stats - from what I can find, it looks like Open Source Telephony is at about 18%, but that is stats from last year.

If I were a reseller, I guess I would have this at my fingertips, but I just support systems within my organization, and I hope to expand it to additional sites...

Thanks!
Tomsyr

 

[AlwaysONS]

History

This one starts right from the word go. I can remember Mark having his web cam up in his dorm room back in the days of old. Just a note from me, there are allot of folks pushing different distro's of "Asterisk" from the "Greenies" to "PBXINAFLASH'. I have seen them all worked on them all and found the best of the best is right here in this forum.

Good luck ... with your history lesson!

http://socializedsoftware.com/2008/...unts-the-history-of-open-source-asterisk-pbx/

This is the wiki it shows different release dates:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterisk_(PBX)

You can also find some really good history with this distribution on Nerd Vittles ... INCLUDING SOME KILLER APPS...

 

[tomsyr]

Thanks for the links. I've followed and used PiaF since it's inception. I left Trix soon after it went green. I'm glad they did - without that change, I'm not sure if PiaF would have happened.

Tom