Comments on: More Skype Shake Ups, Kazim gone, Gomez Up http://gigaom.com/2006/12/14/henry-gomez-is-the-new-ceo/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:44:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: eBay, Skype and Big Bucks http://gigaom.com/2006/12/14/henry-gomez-is-the-new-ceo/#comment-129870 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:36:57 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/12/14/henry-gomez-is-the-new-ceo/#comment-129870 [...] Skype users fro the new year. Not in the least surprising. An exodus of early Skype employees continues. What was eBay thinking when they paid billions for [...]

]]> By: Techo Zed Meuw » Henry Gomez is new CEO of Skype! http://gigaom.com/2006/12/14/henry-gomez-is-the-new-ceo/#comment-129869 Sat, 10 Nov 2007 12:50:32 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/12/14/henry-gomez-is-the-new-ceo/#comment-129869 [...] read more | digg story [...]

]]> By: Kirk Badger http://gigaom.com/2006/12/14/henry-gomez-is-the-new-ceo/#comment-129868 Fri, 15 Dec 2006 14:11:35 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/12/14/henry-gomez-is-the-new-ceo/#comment-129868 I wonder if Skype now is going to be abusive towards their customer base as ebay/Paypal is ?
It is going to be interesting.
In top floor office he may not realize that it a totally diffirent ballgame with tons of real competition for your customers to leave to.

]]> By: LG http://gigaom.com/2006/12/14/henry-gomez-is-the-new-ceo/#comment-129867 Fri, 15 Dec 2006 14:04:36 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/12/14/henry-gomez-is-the-new-ceo/#comment-129867 It wasn’t the Ebay buyout per se, but Skype has lost 100% of its’ cool factor. It’s still great for working around firewalls (Although Gizmo has gotten better), but apart from that it hasn’t got anything to recommend about it.
Add to that the fact that it’s not standards compliant, doesn’t interconnect with anything else and has become more and more of a system hog, and it’s right on the verge of getting kicked from my Dock. SIP sucks, and it’s triply sucky if you’re adminning a firewall, but it’s standard, it’s interconnectable and it works.
Skype would need an incredible rabbit out of the hat at this point to make me change my mind about it

LG

]]> By: Avid Skype user http://gigaom.com/2006/12/14/henry-gomez-is-the-new-ceo/#comment-129866 Fri, 15 Dec 2006 14:01:08 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/12/14/henry-gomez-is-the-new-ceo/#comment-129866 Great, now they can fuck it up just like they did with ebay and paypal. Those 2 companies could care less about the consumers, and in the end, paypal will go from being a great and free company, to being another evil corporate entity. Fuck you ebay / paypal!

]]> By: macewan http://gigaom.com/2006/12/14/henry-gomez-is-the-new-ceo/#comment-129865 Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:48:05 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/12/14/henry-gomez-is-the-new-ceo/#comment-129865 Henry, have your developers update the Linux client. In the beginning Skype was more cross platform. Everyone is jump to wengo or gizmo project.

]]> By: Rick http://gigaom.com/2006/12/14/henry-gomez-is-the-new-ceo/#comment-129864 Fri, 15 Dec 2006 04:15:48 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/12/14/henry-gomez-is-the-new-ceo/#comment-129864 These things happen when billion of dollars are spent with no ROI in sight.

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