Skype open for business with legal battles over

Now that Skype has made nice with its founders and secured its underlying code base, things are looking up for the Skype business play.

Last week Joltid and Skype founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis ended their litigation against Skype and joined the investor group and the Skype board with a 14 percent share in the company. They got this deal in exchange for handing over the essential Joltid software that Skype runs on as well as a cash investment in the company. With the end of its legal woes and the necessary software safe in its hands, Skype for Business is looking a little more stable. Irwin Lazar, an analyst with Nemertes Research told Network World that he'd be a lot more interested in the corporate use of Skype even after just a month ago he was advising businesses to stay away.

Lazar pointed out recent moves like Skype for SIP as well as Skype's moves to get their offerings working with IP PBX vendors' gear will go a long way in bringing SMBs to their door as it would take a lot of the frustration out of setting up SIP as well as offer some serious cost-savings by switching to Skype.

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