which were easily administrated via a user friendly Web interface that caught the community's attention. The Elastix 2.5 Linux distribution is based on CentOS, which has binary compatibility with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. From its initial release until now the Elastix distro has grown in popularity. The project was nominated for two straight years (2007 and 2008) as finalist in the SourceForge Community Choice Awards. In 2016 the Elastix project was acquired by 3CX. With this acquisition the Elastix Distro versioned at 5.0 was switched to a proprietary software on top of Debian with the 3CX platform. Open-source forks of pre-version 5 Elastix are being maintained by the Issabel project. Similar software distributions Issabel – A project to maintain and advance an open-source fork of Elastix. FreePBX Distro – Official Distro of the FreePBX Project maintained by Sangoma Technologies Corporation PBX in a Flash – Originally used FreePBX, later versions use 3CX AsteriskNOW – Merged into FreePBX trixbox – Now End of Life, uses Forked version of FreePBX was maintained by Fonality References External links Free VoIP software Telephone exchanges Free business software Communication software 2006 software Asterisk (PBX) FreePBX Formerly free software