I worked at Digium from 2008-2011. Digium employed some really great programmers and I obtained a solid starting foundation for my career as a developer hacking

I worked at Digium from 2008-2011. Digium employed some really great programmers and I obtained a solid starting foundation for my career as a developer hacking on Asterisk in C. Definitely enjoyed my time there. Going back to around that time period, there was a project started called Asterisk SCF (internally called Hydra, I couldn't remember if it was made public but it's in the list archives: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-scf-dev/ http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-scf-dev/). Asterisk SCF was going to be new software (written in C++) that supported scalability as a primary feature. I still wonder if Digium had continued funding it what would have happened, but eventually development was halted: http://www.digium.com/blog/2012/09/14/asterisk-scf-pause/ http://www.digium.com/blog/2012/09/14/asterisk-scf-pause/. All that to say I'm happy for Digium's success, but still think an acquisition could have occurred far sooner with a product based on Asterisk SCF.