Comments: Nope to Skype?

"Nonetheless, I feel that eBay sellers can use third party VoIP tools as well instead of Skype" : shouldn't they have been doing that in the first place ? And I cannot imagine how they will insist on Skype being the only one to be used.

Posted by Venkatesh Rangarajan at December 5, 2005 09:38 PM

Skype isn't about giving sellers another tool. It's about keeping Ebay in the internet game. Bold moves like the Skype deal are usually passed on by management teams because they're more worried about what that street will say than where their company will end up 10 years later. Google has a war room and no doubt Ebay is on the hit list. I commend managemnt for making the right decision to buy Skype.$4b is a small risk to take to help save and protect your business !

Posted by Tim Johnson at December 5, 2005 09:57 PM

Wow, I actually was going to criticize E-bay for the deal, but Tim may have a good point.

Great post Aswath!

Posted by Jonathan at December 6, 2005 01:09 AM