Monday, March 23, 2009

Skype to generate billions for eBay

Also, Verizon Business becomes one of the first global service providers to offer OCS R2 managed service support
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Skype to generate billions for eBay

Steve Taylor By Steve Taylor and Larry Hettick
Today, we highlight two company announcements: Verizon Business is now offering a new managed service based on the recently released Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 platform and Skype is expected to generate a billion dollars in revenue for eBay by 2011. Read full story

Steve Taylor is president of Distributed Networking Associates and publisher/editor-in-chief of Webtorials. Larry Hettick is a principal analyst at Current Analysis.

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