Further evidence that Digium is growing up comes in the form of this morning’s announcement that 3Com will offer their customers a solution based on Digium's Asterisk Appliance, which runs Asterisk Business Edition 1.4.
The solution is targeted at deployments constituting five to 30 phone users
When I spoke with Digium’s Mark Spencer and Bill Miller regarding this development, we laughed that in the timeline of Digium’s maturity, the relationship between 3Com and Digium is akin to Digium finally dating an 18 year old girl.
In other words, it’s getting serious.
Last week Digium announced the acquisition of Switchvox.
As I reported at the time, I viewed the deal as integral to Digium’s goals of making Asterisk easier to use and deploy, as well as expanding the company’s reach to new customers across the globe through a growing channel.
3Com, while not the same company as it was back in the heyday 90’s, still has a robust channel and still enjoys good brand recognition within the small and medium sized business market it strives to serve with this latest offering.
As Miller said, “Open source is taking over the SMB world.”
3Com has been in the news a lot these past few days, with Friday’s announcement that the company is being acquired by Bain Capital and Huawei and this morning’s announcement of two new VCX-based solutions for the SMB market.
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