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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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. >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Asterisk mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/asterisk >> > >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> John Lange >> www.johnlange.ca >> _______________________________________________ >> Asterisk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/asterisk >> > > > > -- > Sean Walberg <[email protected]> http://ertw.com/ >
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