more on Gripes From Skype Users After eBay Buy-Out

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Robert Lee <robertslee () verizon net>
Date: September 20, 2005 9:43:33 AM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: RE: [IP] Gripes From Skype Users After eBay Buy-Out


Would someone please tell me why Skype is worth $4 billion?  It has
revenues of $7 million.

If eBay wants IM and telecom communication between bidders and sellers
then why don't they get three Drexel work study students to do it for
them. They certainly do not need to terminate calls on the PSTN.

Would someone tell me why the business community should be so positive
about the Oracle/Siebel merger?  Two companies that cannot grow merge
together to have one larger company that cannot grow.

When you hear that Wallstreet is happy that means that the bankers are
happy with their merger fees.  A spate of mergers, as I have said
before, is a sign of disease.  In a healthy sector entities grow from
their investment in sales and marketing, R&D, etc.  They grow
internally.  It is called core growth.

Today, companies of all stripes, are being forced to sell much higher
unit sales for much less money, simply spinning dollars.

IMO, this marks the beginning of a long period in which the consumer
will benefit and, due to the labor force being more markedly removed
from the production chain than ever before, there will not be so much
the recession of the labor force but the recession of the producers.

The high price of gasoline and heating oil is already adding to this
effect in that it is supplanting much discretionary purchasing, which
will be met by further lowering of prices.


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Subject: [IP] Gripes From Skype Users After eBay Buy-Out



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From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>
Date: September 19, 2005 11:34:50 PM EDT
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[Note:  This item comes from reader Steve Schear.  DLH]



> From: Steve Schear <s.schear () comcast net>
> Date: September 19, 2005 3:29:28 PM PDT
> To: dewayne-net () warpspeed com
> Subject: Gripes From Skype Users After eBay Buy-Out
>
>
> Gripes From Skype Users After eBay Buy-Out
> By  Reuters
> September 13, 2005
>
>
> LONDON (Reuters) eBay's acquisition of Skype could be worth up to
> $4.1 billion to investors in the Internet telephony start-up, but
> it is getting mixed reviews from Skype's fervent supporters.
>
> It was the hard-core Skype fans whose word-of-mouth advertising
> helped it become the world's largest voice over Internet protocol
> (VOIP) provider without spending a penny on marketing. It has some
> 54 million registered users and usually has more than 3.5 million
> people online.
>
> But the sale to eBay could signal the end of the evangelical zeal
> from users that drove Skype's rapid growth. Its software which
> offers free computer-to-computer calls between Skype users has
> spread in classic viral fashion, as each new user convinces friends
> and family to sign up.
>
> In a poll on the forums, 69 percent of users said the acquisition
> is not a good thing, compared with 23 percent in favor of the deal.
>
> "In my opinion, the takeover by eBay means to me possibly and
> probably the end of free Skype services. I anticipate a very bad
> future for us here but I sincerely hope I am wrong," the Skype user
> Alan2 wrote on Monday. Users also raised concerns that the purchase
> of the Luxembourg-based Skype by a U.S. company could mean new
> legal constraints on the service.
>
> More at: <http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1858664,00.asp>

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