Certainly, the software was initially created mostly by Mark Spencer of Digium (Find out more about the history of Asterisk here.). Having released Asterisk, Mark founded Digium. So, the company was believed to do the following: – Offer Asterisk’s users the essential tools for traditional Internet connection. Despite the fact that modern “clean” IP telephony exchange software works only with SIP, Asterisk allows users to connect directly to analog and digital communicationsystems. And Digium manufactures all the equipment to make it possible (you can look at the company’s list here). – Manage the designing of Asterisk. After thousands of users and designers around the globe have become involved in the improving and perfecting of the software, the company’s founders had to create a administered manageable open source community. Follow the link here to read about the community http://bugs.digium.com. – Identify and finance the strategic plan of Asterisk’s growth. Company’s skilled programmers make this possible to achieve. Moreover, most of the professionals and programmers came from Asterisk’s community. Their active work on the improvement of the existing source code and developing a new code drew Asterisk’s administrators’ attention.