Version 3.0 offers more business features; company plans to work with third parties to adapt service to enterprise uses.
Skype will continue to aim at the business market, adding functions for specific business needs, executives said last week at the company's development center in Tallinn, Estonia.
The company's most recent 3.0 version of its software allows system administrators to configure and control Skype use across an enterprise and Skype will build on that. Its software provides Internet telephony service as well as messaging, video conferencing, and file transfer.
Skype for Business
In the short to medium term, Skype will rely on the growth of an "ecosystem" of third parties to adapt and integrate Skype for specific enterprise uses, executives said. "My opinion is that it is better to provide good information and let [other] people build the Skype ecosystem," said Chief Security Officer Kurt Sauer, adding that "the best ideas are somewhere else."
Skype 'Worm,' Bandwidth Concerns
Speaking to journalists at Skype's development center, Sauer also addressed the issue of an alleged worm recently said to have propagated in the Skype network as well as claims that corporate networks using Skype could become overloaded "supernodes."
Skype May Penetrate Firewalls
The Skype executives were somewhat evasive when asked whether Skype penetrated company and personal firewalls. He said that when both parties to a Skype call have firewalls, it is impossible to form a peer-to-peer link, so a system of "relays" using other nodes is used. "This relaying is what is understood as punching holes in firewalls," Sauer said.
Jackson and Sauer's meeting with Baltic IT journalists also provided a rare look at Skype's low-profile Estonian development center, where more than 200 programmers from 32 countries work on three floors of an open-office environment. The small number of separate conference rooms and cubicles all have Estonian names so that "employees learn a little of the language" according to Skype spokesman Villu Arak.
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Skype will continue to aim at the business market, adding functions for specific business needs, executives said last week at the company's development center in Tallinn, Estonia.
The company's most recent 3.0 version of its software allows system administrators to configure and control Skype use across an enterprise and Skype will build on that. Its software provides Internet telephony service as well as messaging, video conferencing, and file transfer.
Skype for Business
In the short to medium term, Skype will rely on the growth of an "ecosystem" of third parties to adapt and integrate Skype for specific enterprise uses, executives said. "My opinion is that it is better to provide good information and let [other] people build the Skype ecosystem," said Chief Security Officer Kurt Sauer, adding that "the best ideas are somewhere else."
Skype 'Worm,' Bandwidth Concerns
Speaking to journalists at Skype's development center, Sauer also addressed the issue of an alleged worm recently said to have propagated in the Skype network as well as claims that corporate networks using Skype could become overloaded "supernodes."
Skype May Penetrate Firewalls
The Skype executives were somewhat evasive when asked whether Skype penetrated company and personal firewalls. He said that when both parties to a Skype call have firewalls, it is impossible to form a peer-to-peer link, so a system of "relays" using other nodes is used. "This relaying is what is understood as punching holes in firewalls," Sauer said.
Jackson and Sauer's meeting with Baltic IT journalists also provided a rare look at Skype's low-profile Estonian development center, where more than 200 programmers from 32 countries work on three floors of an open-office environment. The small number of separate conference rooms and cubicles all have Estonian names so that "employees learn a little of the language" according to Skype spokesman Villu Arak.
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