[*] Digium’s One Millionth Asterisk Download in 2007 Caps Record Year for Company

[Steve Lecomte]

Pretty impressive!

>From the Digium press release:

Digium's One Millionth Asterisk Download in 2007 Caps Record Year for Company

Open Source Telephony Leader Enters Next Phase of Business Growth with
New Leadership Team, Products, Partnerships and Acquisitions

HUNTSVILLE, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Digium(R), Inc., the Asterisk(R)
Company, today announced the one millionth download of Asterisk in
2007, capping off a record year for the leading open source telephony
company. Digium, which will complete its 24th consecutive quarter of
growth and profitability this year, created headlines with new
executive appointments, industry awards, strategic partnerships and
acquisitions aimed at further advancing the company's presence in the
small-to-medium-sized (SMB) VoIP market.

Open source Asterisk continues to revolutionize the VoIP market by
giving companies a cheaper and more flexible alternative to
proprietary solutions. The 2007 introduction of Digium's Asterisk
Appliance (AA50) based on Embedded Asterisk Business Edition
successfully combined the cost savings and flexibility of open source
with the rapid installation, high reliability and ease of use of a
business appliance. PC Magazine called the Asterisk Appliance
"astonishingly compact" and packed with "high-end features."

Additional 2007 highlights include:

Executive Appointments – Danny Windham joined the company as CEO from
ADTRAN, a $500M+, publicly-traded networking company. Mark Spencer,
founder of Digium and creator of Asterisk, assumed the role of CTO to
focus on growing the future of Asterisk and developing new unified
communications applications based on open source. Digium also added a
VP of Sales and VP of Engineering to round out its management team.

Acquisitions – With its new executive leadership team in place, Digium
looked to grow its presence within the Asterisk open source community
and SMB VoIP market. In July, Digium acquired Sokol & Associates, the
premier provider of training for Asterisk users and producer of the
AstriCon open source user conference. In September, Digium completed
its acquisition of Switchvox, a leading provider of IP PBX phone
systems powered by Asterisk for SMBs.

Partnerships – In October, Digium announced a partnership with 3Com
Corporation to offer "3Com Asterisk" to small businesses that need a
reliable, easy-to-deploy voice solution based on open standards and
open source. Digium also announced a licensing agreement with NTT
Software Corp., a subsidiary of Japan's largest phone company, to sell
products based on Asterisk Business Edition in Asia.

Industry Awards –Digium won InfoWorld's Best of Open Source Software
(BOSS) award and was the only open source company recognized in the
VoIP category. Digium was named the top emerging VoIP vendor by
Computer Reseller News (CRN) and its newly acquired Switchvox SMB 3.0
Software received the publication's "Tech Innovator" award. Network
World named Digium an "open source company to watch" and CRM Magazine
gave Digium its "Rising Star" and "Service Excellence" award. Locally,
Digium accepted the Alabama "Governor's Trade Excellence Award" for
its commitment to local and international business.

Reseller Program and the Digium Asterisk Marketplace – In 2007, Digium
announced a new Authorized Reseller Program and unveiled the Digium
Asterisk Marketplace to give the Asterisk community of end-users,
developers, small businesses and enterprises a one-stop online
destination for all their open source VoIP deployment needs.

Digium|Asterisk World – This year marked the inaugural debut of
Digium|Asterisk World, an event solely dedicated to advancing open
source IP telephony communications in business environments. The event
included a ceremony announcing the winners of the first annual Digium
"Innovation Awards" honoring businesses putting Asterisk to use in new
and exciting ways.

"I am very proud of the great strides Digium made in 2007 to
demonstrate Asterisk's unquestionable growth and impact on the SMB and
enterprise markets," said Digium CEO Danny Windham. "In many ways 2007
was Digium's coming of age with regard to aligning award-winning
products and partnerships with a clear vision for the future of open
source telephony and unified communications."