At 24 Apr 2008 21:17:37 -0400 Diamond Dave wrote:

> >Google. Search the blogs and VoIP news.
>
> Even Google would be fools to buy Skype and not start their own.


Why? Skype has millons of loyal customers and a complete, running system
with fairly polished software.

> Heck, they already bought GrandCentral. They could just expand that
> and compete with Skype, and win!

That sort of defeats your own argument, doesn't it? Why did they buy
Grandcentral when they could've just started their own version?

I doubt they'll buy Skype, but if they did, it could integrate nicely with
Grandcentral, much the same way GC integrates with Gizmo, allowing users to
forward GC calls to a Gizmo SIP URI, essentially giving all Gizmo users a
free incoming number in virtually any area code. If Google allowed you to
tie a GC number to a Skype username directly, that'd eliminate the need for
a "Skype In" number.