Digium CEO post - "Microsoft + Skype = Microsoft"

For those depending on FREE Video, Web and Audio conferencing services, the list of options continues to dwindle.

Earlier this year Salesforce.com gobbled up dimdim and set expectations for thousands of users to not plan to use the FREE service any more outside the Salesforce.com Chatter Suite. No more new customers are being accepted of any kind.

A similar strategy seems to be underway at Microsoft with acquisition of Skype $8.5 Billion. Digium CEO, Danny Windham offers another anti-Microsoft view, (Open Source  hosted PBX software - Asterisk sponsor)....... Microsoft + Skype = Microsoft.

See more anti-Microsoft sentiment also today at: Skype to Kill Asterisk VoIP Integration.

Interoperability continues to be a challenge in the wake of giant firms acquiring SMB cost-competitive platforms to promote their mega-suites over open systems technology.

Seven Percent of U.S. Physicians Use Video Chat to Communicate with Patients

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