cfx211 - 2:44 pm on Jul 31, 2009 (gmt 0)

It's a stunner but welcome news for many of us in the VOIP field. Skype running on SIP would make compatibility with the rest of us a possibility, and Skype going under would put a ton of market share up for play.

I don't think either will happen though. This smells like a test of wills between the founders and Ebay over whether Skype goes IPO or gets sold back to the founders at a significant discount.

Telephony is in a really interesting place right now. You can carve out a good business using VOIP and PSTNs together, but that could all get wiped out in 5 years time if mobiles start running voice through wifi/wimax/whatever.