• Paul Jardine on Skype Acquires Sonorit and Camino Networks

  Perhaps this links with Stefan Obergs claim that they want to make Skype 'better than a phone, with hifi sound'.
  If they want it to be a market discriminator, then they need an in-house edge. Everyone has GIPS now...
  I can't help thinking there are easier, less (expensive) risky ways to make their software more attractive. But it seems that they are going the IP route (intellectual property)

• jan geirnaert / tropicaljantie on Skype Acquires Sonorit and Camino Networks

  how will the end-users, the skype-advocates, the skype-evangelists, the believers, the business-users benefit from all this ?

• Valentina on Skype Acquires Sonorit and Camino Networks

  Skype has acquired Sonorit. This is Skype / eBay move in the right direction to complete with Microsoft, Google, AOL and Yahoo, Skype core biz is voice and it cannot afford to depend on the 3rd party license, but must own the core voice technology, like Microsoft does,

  · However Sonorit/Camino is too small (less then 10 people), was formed as a company just several months ago, has no shipping product, has no single customer, so this acquisition does not solve Skype technology hole yet,

  · This acquisition is not to avoid paying royalties to GIPS, this is strategic Skype technology move to compete with Microsoft, Google, AOL and Yahoo, there are several clear less costy ways for Skype to stop paying royalties to GIPS,

  · This acquisition validates again high market prices for software voice technology companies, like Skype itself, GIPS, Camino and SPIRIT DSP

  
  

• MuppetMaster on Skype Acquires Sonorit and Camino Networks

  Looks like eBay loves to buy companies with all kinds of interesting liabilities...

• Rick on Skype Acquires Sonorit and Camino Networks

  GIPS helped Skype create a $4 billion sale, and they dump them over royalties. Please, don't do business with me Nick!

• Rick on Skype Acquires Sonorit and Camino Networks

  Bargain? Phil, Skype has released over 200 million apps to customers and paid GIPS maybe several million USD. GIPS has profited nicely from the exposure, but that doesn't preclude Skype from paying the enabler of their success.

  Yes, it may be good business for Skype, but I get the sense they never appreciated the fact that GIPS made them a success to begin with.

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