It’s turning into a holy war as the loyalists square off with the not so ready to believe.
Erik’s point about SIP is very well taken. Like him, I think standards based technology will win out. Skype, while an overnight success story only has to integrate SIP into itself and the telco world would change even more.
For what it’s worth, my Gizmo to Gizmo chat with Michael Robertson sounded better than a Skype To Skype chat. Then again, I’m sure Mr. Disruptor was on a T-1 and we’re not that far from one another. Still it says a lot for what he’s done. And oh, contrary to some reports, Gizmo isn’t using the XTEN softphone at all. Robertson’s team built it on their own
Portugal Telecom Launches VoIP in Messenger with SIP
PT just released it’s new SAPO VoIP & Video messenger product in Beta. This new version uses SIP for the VoIP and Video signaling. Xten announced a sale of the eyebeam SDK to PT in June. Here is the download…