Digium Acquires Sokol & Associates
Source: asteriskblog.com
Digium, the company that invented and is behind the Asterisk open source telephone communication platform, recently acquired Sokol And Associates. Sokol & Associates is the premier provider of training services for Asterisk users and producer of the AstriCon Open source conference.
Sokol has been an important part of the Asterisk community, and has more that 10 years of experience in the VOIP industry. The firm is composed of network and system engineers, and software developers who have in-depth knowledge of the Asterisk platform. This allows them to provide intensive training programs for Asterisk users across Europe and the United States.
For a company that is solidly backing and banking on the success of the Asterisk open source communication platform, Digium’s decision to acquire Sokol and Associates is a very good move. The expertise of Sokol & Associates’ engineers and staff will be a vital addition to Digium.
To quote from the official announcement in Sokol and Associates’ website:
“We’ve been such an active part of the Asterisk community for years that joining Digium seemed like the logical next step for our group,” said Steve Sokol. “We look forward to continuing to work with Asterisk users around the world and to taking our knowledge of how people are using Asterisk every day and using it to impact future product development.”
“Asterisk is one of the most commonly used open source projects today, and as the community of users and contributors grows, we want to deepen our relationship with them,” said Mark Spencer, founder and chief technology officer of Digium. “Sokol & Associates has run Asterisk training classes around the world and has long been a central part of this community. By bringing Steve and his group on, Digium gains another conduit to new and advanced Asterisk users around the world.”
Steve Sokol, which is an active and prominent member of the Asterisk community, will become responsible for planning and strategizing for future software offerings from Digium. Digium currently offers AsteriskNOW™, Asterisk Business Edition™ and the AsteriskGUI ™ besides the core Asterisk platform.
The puzzles pieces are becoming complete in Digium’s goal to become the de facto support company for Asterisk. The company have previously stated its plan to offer everything Asterisk (which, being the inventor and backer of the technology, doesn’t come as a surprise), including documentation, cards and turnkey solutions, and now, training for asterisk users.
