"Asterisk hasn't been around all that long, but it has become the standard for open source VoIP PBX.
"In a keynote session at the Asterisk and Open Telephony Conference here, Kevin Fleming, senior software engineer at Digium and co-maintainer of Asterisk, told an overflow capacity crowd of Asterisk lovers what the future holds for their beloved project.
"With the 1.4 release now under his belt, as well as a new Asterisk appliance effort called AsteriskNOW, Fleming is now concentrating his efforts on the 1.6 release, which could be out by the end of this year..."
