I was about to post a write up this morning on a “Skype for business competition” and decided beforehand to check out what was going on in the tech world when I came across this interesting posting on Techcrunch.com titled: “Skype Sale to Investor Group Led By Andreesen Horowitz Confirmed”.
The title itself seems fairly innocuous. The article explains that Skype will be sold to an investor group led by Andreesen Horowitz, and will have as capital investors Index Ventures, and Silver Lake Partners. The piece I find interesting is the Silver Lake Partners piece.
Silver Lakes, along with TPG, is one of the 2 private investors that also owns Avaya.
For those that read my blog, you will know that I view Skype and Google as one of the long term threats to the CPE / Enterprise telecom business. I have no idea what the association between Silver Lakes and Skype might be, or for that matter whether this rumor is even true, but, if this does pan out it will certainly pivot Avaya / Skype to the front of the VoIP, CPE , Telecom 2.0 market. Let’s wait and see what happens !
Jeff www.digitcom.ca
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