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Keynote Pictures from Astricon 2009 – Thursday, October 15, 2009

Posted on: October 19, 2009

Glendale, AZ & Washington DC – Pictures from Thursday’s keynotes at AstriCon 2009.

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IBM CTO Mike Smith talks all about Digium’s role as an ISV on IBM’s Smart Cube program.  Companies with Smart Cube can pull down Asterisk from IBM’s online  Smart Business marketplace.

danny_windham_digium

Digium CEO Danny Windham recapping 2009 in terms of challenges and opportunities.  Windham said that in the budget squeezes of the past year, companies have looked to open source as a more economical and cost-effective means of doing business — good stuff for Asterisk and other open source companies.

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And what’s AstriCon without Steve Sokol? Steve founded AstriCon 6 years ago and got the shows — and himself — bought by Digium.

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