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The recent Skype outage (for more than 24 hours) should pose as a concern to those who have become too dependent on Skype. Many Australians doing business online have found it a “must-have” app when dealing with clients all over the world….

So, like the rest of the planet we have had a Skype-Outage for a lot of the last few days….its sort of back up now, with a few people appearing and disappearing here and there. However, I read of companies that have stopped using landlines and are now i

http://digg.com/software/Skype_Aftermath_Technical_analysis

Companies who need IM should at least have a private jabber service on standby, and real phone lines.

If business is so critical you can’t have outages, then you should probably have backups because ALL services experience outages at one time or another.

Yes, it costs more – doesn’t stop working without explanation (“not caused by hackers” is not an explanation in my books).

Contacted skype but I guess they are pretty busy currently so no response.

Voice interrupts too much and we got by with regular phone coverage for that. For chat using a multi-protocol client (Adium, Pidgin) is by far the most reliable, if everybody has at least a couple of accounts.

This is the weak link in Skype’s entire infrastructure. Yet they harp on voice quality and ignore the real issues.

The outage shouldn’t hurt Skype’s free side too much. Google Talk has much better voice quality, but no conference calls (that I could find). Yahoo! Messenger does conferences, but kicks off a 3-ring circus each time you launch it. Since you can’t quit MS Messenger once it starts, I never let it on to systems any more. Skype is still best for managing free PTP and conference calls, and nobody wants to re-enter all those addresses.

The paid side of Skype’s business should take a pasting. Why would you give out a SkypeIn number when the company can’t keep it working? There are plenty of services that integrate into Outlook and give you good VOIP calls, and now everyone knows that they need to have at least one of these, which will siphon money from Skype (though Skype’s combo of land-line and computer support remains tops).

eBay has a history of being able to bounce back from worse outages (1998, anyone?), so let’s hope they do so here as well.

I think messaging and backing up that message with execution will be key…