trillian99's Journal: Asterisk - Techie Toy or Real World PBX?

A VoIP User member is questioning the validity of Asterisk as a commercial PBX solution.

"...do we need to look at Asterisk as a 'techie' or 'early adopter' piece of art that runs at their homes on a dusty old PC that otherwise would not have been used anyway?"

Is open-source PBX software tainted with its 'techie' image, or can systems like Asterisk actually give rise to a serious threat to the hardware PBX industry?