[*] Fallout of Skype purchase from Microsoft

[Dan Keizer]

What I see as the benefit of Skype with Asterisk is just that it allows a
bridge between Skype and the VoIP community at large.
>From a personal level, sure, Skype wins as Sean says, it's everywhere and
just works.
SIP standards are certainly the way to go -- moving out of this arrangement
with digium may not be a bad thing after all - time will tell :-)

Dan.


On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Sean Walberg <sean at ertw.com> wrote:

> Skype's advantages, IMHO:
>
> 1. It just works. No firewall problems, NAT headaches
> 2. Everyone has it. I have friends that don't have (or use) Google chat.
> They all have Skype
> 3. It's easy to use. I taught my mother in law to use Google chat so we
> could do video calls with the kids. Getting the plugin installed was a pain.
> And I've had occasional conflicts with GoToMeeting.
> 4. Skype has better video and audio quality. There are some labs features
> that improve Google, but I notice that Skype is much better. Plus it
> integrates screen sharing and conferencing.
>
> If Microsoft wanted to buy a VoIP client, they would have written it
> themselves instead of spending $8B on it, or would have entered a licensing
> deal with Skype or one of their bajillion competitors.
>
> Sean
>
>
> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 9:29 AM, John Lange <john at johnlange.ca> wrote:
>
>> Personally I've always failed to see the appeal of skype since it's
>> something that could be replicated using other voip related tools with
>> the added benefit of being tied to a larger database of potential
>> users that you could reach.
>>
>> For example, google voice does exactly the same thing and I'm sure
>> there is probably a face book app and all kinds of other services that
>> will be challenging their business especially for mobile devices. If
>> Microsoft decides Skype is going to be a proprietary tool to boost
>> Windows in some way, which seems likely given the cancellation of the
>> Digium contract, it will fail.
>>
>> All of this is further evidence that Microsoft is beginning to slide
>> and can't seem to figure out what to do.
>>
>> And word today that Skype is "down" world-wide.
>>
>> John
>>
>> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 11:00 PM, Dan Keizer <ve4drk at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hey Bill -- sounds like a plausible explanation.
>> > An interesting twitter post by Ward (aka nerdvittles) indicates that
>> > Skype-Asterisk integration for free personal use is coming back ...
>> > Dan.
>> >
>> > I just got an email from Digium stating that Skype for Asterisk will not
>> be
>> > available after July 26. The existing customers will be supported till
>> July,
>> > 2013.
>> >
>> > I assume this is a fallout of the Microsoft purchase, perhaps Microsoft
>> > wants
>> > the ability for SIP to Skype gateway to be an exclusive feature for
>> their
>> > own
>> > Communicator product.
>> >
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