The Current State of Open Source Wednesday 12308 11:00 AM

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The Current State of Open SourceWednesday
1/23/08 1100 AM

• Bill Miller
• VP, Prod Mgt Marketing
• Digium, Inc.

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The Questions

• What is the status of business-class open source?
• Who is using open source today?
• Where does it fit if the enterprise already has a
  primary proprietary vendor?
• What capabilities are best suited for open
  source?
• Are there any ground rules for using, modifying,
  and creating your own open source software?

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The Market Open Source Telephony Projections

• Stand-alone open source market will reach 5.8B
  by 2010/2011 (26 CAGR)1
• IP PBX market will reach 7.9B by 2010 (21
  CAGR)2

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What is Business-Class Open Source?

• Open source is now a fundamental element of
  software and has proven to be business-ready
• Keys to business adoption include affordability,
  high quality code, flexibility to innovate and
  customize, and eliminate vendor lock-in
• Proven business models for delivering
  commercially licensed and fully supported
  versions of open source software which provide
  the business with
• Indemnification
• Direct vendor support

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What is Business-Class Open Source?

• Leader Linux
• These are the foundation for new applications
• Operating System led 1st generation
• Web Services leading now 2nd generation
• Application examples riding on proof points
• Zimbra Collaboration (acquired by Yahoo)
• JBoss Middleware (acquired by Red Hat)
• MySQL database (acquired by Sun)
• SugarCRM sales force automation
• Asterisk VoIP/IP telephony
• Many, many, more!

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Open Source Applications
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Examples of Open Source in Business
Telephony
Asterisk
Source - Gartner Network World 1.15.07, pg 38
Digium 2007
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Open Source Ruled in 2007

• More than 6 billion minutes of calls were made
  over Asterisk systems1
• More than 890,0001 new users were connected over
  Asterisk IP telephony connected phones
• More than 1.1 million people downloaded Digiums
  Asterisk/AsteriskNOW/Switchvox free open source
  software
• More than 10,000,0001 people downloaded some
  version of open source software
• Two events for Asterisk DigiumAsterisk World
  (Asterisk for business 3 events on 2008) and
  Astricon, now in its 5th year (the premier
  Asterisk user conference)

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What Does Open Source IP PBX Mean Today for
Business?

• Major drivers are
• Ability to innovate freely
• Ability to customize easily
• Ability to personalize
• To lower the cost of ownership
• To acquire
• To learn
• To trial
• To implement
• To grow
• Flexibility
• Investment protection (open source source
  code)
• No vendor lock-in
• Open standards

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Open Source Asterisk Choices
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Open Source IP Telephony Today

• Asterisk is everywhere and in a variety of
  unified communications applications including
  call centers, PBX, voice mail, conferencing and
  VoIP services
• The ecosystem global partners, from 3Com on the
  infrastructure side, to applications developers
  who have all developed solutions based on
  Asterisk. Enables integrators, resellers, and
  users to build what they need without giving up
  functionality
• Free software distributions
• Digium alone averages 3000 downloads per day
• Others have delivered over 2 million additional
  downloaded Asterisk servers via distributions
  that we hear about
• There are dozens of distributions today of
  Asterisk largest are AsteriskNOW and trixbox
  others include Astlinux and Red Hat
• Focus on ease of use and simplicity plus give
  users choices
• Capabilities and ease of use are surpassing
  traditional choices using web 2.0 mashups and
  easy top use admin and user tools
• Integrate various web sites such as Google Maps
  and Salesforce, Facebook, or any other URL into
  presence-based Switchboard

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Digium Overview (See us in booth 532)
Founded 1999 Creator of Asterisk, the 1 open
source telephony software Vision A world based
on open communications Mission Transform the way
business acquire and operate their communications
systems through the application of open source
software Markets SMB, SME - The New Voice of
Business The Asterisk Community of developers,
innovators, integrators Products Asterisk open
source software Gateway cards for servers and
appliances Asterisk business-class software and
toolkits Switchvox SMB turnkey systems, powered
by Asterisk Employees 120 Headquarters Huntsvill
e, AL Investors Matrix Partners,
ADTRAN Profitable Growth since 2002 for 24
straight quarters
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The ParaDigium Shift

• In 1949 Popular Mechanics suggested that
  Computers of the future mayperhaps only weigh
  1.5 tons.
• In 1977 Kenneth Olsen, president and founder of
  Digital Equipment Corporation, stated There is
  no reason for any individual to have a computer
  in their home.
• Decades ago, railroads were busy planning
  expansion of routes, adding streamlined trains,
  never watching for alternate solutions. The
  managers felt air travel was too costly and too
  risky. Today, how many railroads are there vs.
  airplanes?
• Fast forward to open source paradigm shift In
  2007, Avaya/Cisco/Nortel/Microsoft said open
  source telephony was about 5 years out if ever.
  As we look at rising market shares for Asterisk
  and adopters like 3Com, NTT, and others, change
  is here.

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What Happens If You Dont Consider Open Source?
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Best-Fit Open Source For Asterisk IP Telephony?
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Where Asterisk Fits
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The Big Picture
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Ground Rules for Modifying and Redistributing?

• www.asterisk.org and www.asterisknow.org for free
  download you will find GPL licensing rules and
  obligations as well as Digiums process outlined
  on the sites
• For open source distribution
• GPL licensed software is freely distributed with
  source code, including derivative works
• Asterisk open source changes can be licensed back
  to
• Digium for maintaining going forward under
  the GPLv2
• Asterisk can be commercially licensed from Digium
  for binary-only distribution (Asterisk Business
  Edition)
• Other open source companies may use different
  licenses that have different rules (e.g., BSD,
  GPL3, etc.)
• Dual license model means license commercially
  and under the open source license

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Thank you.

• Bill Miller, VP Product Management and Marketing
• bmiller_at_digium.com
• [phone]
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  www.asterisknow.org
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  www.asterisk.org
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