The services provided by professionals in particular field. For example, a company may charge a certain sum of money for the certain tasks their consultant accomplished for the company who ordered the service.
Main portion of the advantages of the Asterisk server appears from it being an open source downloadable product. Most of the users, especially business people, can find it difficult to understand the idea behind this principle, or free software, but a business models behind open source are different and specific, as in case with Asterisk server.