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A comment on Sangoma (FreePBX) to Acquire Digium (Asterisk) for $28M. Parent comment

Re:Sangoma (FreePBX) to Acquire Digium (Asterisk) for $28M by florent42 on Friday August 24, 2018 @04:57PM (#17837845)
> The world is also moving to hosted communications (Twilio, etc) so there is less and less need for a local PBX, thus less demand for Asterisk.

Correct, but don't forget many hosted communications services use asterisk internally.

Twilio did use Asterisk in the past, although I believe they have switched to something else.

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Re:Sangoma (FreePBX) to Acquire Digium (Asterisk) for $28M by Rjevski on Friday August 24, 2018 @09:35PM (#17839064)
I believe they built their own, exactly for the reasons I outlined above.
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