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While the rest of the world is knee-deep in webinars, Skype-based teleconferences, and other Web 2.0 -ish forms of real time communication, most of the Linux community still relies on IRC, wikis, and opt-in email lists to get things done. At FUDCon last month, the Fedora community announced a new way of helping members and developers communicate with each other: Fedora Talk

By Aaron Huslage

We thought it would be good to give open source VOIP pioneers Digium equal time, given our recent post about Freeswitch. Digium's founder, Mark Spencer was the original author of the Asterisk PBX, one of the more mature open source VOIP platforms. The company's VP of Marketing, Bill Miller, told me that Last year was a big year for us; at the year-end we had finished our 24th straight profitable quarter. We had grown to about 130 employees. While Digium doesn't disclose financial figures, its sales have reportedly been doubling over the past few years and it has taken at least $14 million in venture capital since launching.