Asterisk®, the Open Source Telephony Project adoption has grown dramatically this year; a proof of this adoption is several key metrics:

*    1,540,000 downloads in 2008
*    1.03M downloads 1st half 2009
*    63,000 active participants on forums
*    28,500 topics
*    92,000 posts
*    17,700 on active Asterisk mailing lists
*    7,248 on Asterisk Bug Tracker
*    820 active contributors
*    2,000 new code commits in 2009
*    More than 200 service providers worldwide using Asterisk

More information at Asterisk’s Blog:
http://blogs.asterisk.org/2009/11/10/asterisk-project-update-astricon-2009/