MIS Asia - Microsoft's $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype could profoundly influence a set of collaboration and conferencing technologies called Unified Communications (UC) that have taken years to catch on, analysts said Thursday.
The deal, announced Tuesday, would likely benefit Microsoft by connecting Skype's free, mostly consumer-grade, Internet voice and video service -- used by millions worldwide -- with Microsoft's own Lync UC product for delivering enterprise-grade audio, video, chat and Web conferencing, analysts said.
Even videoconferencing vendor Polycom saw the Skype acquisition as a plus, since Polycom is already a close partner to Microsoft and would benefit from a Lync integration with Skype.
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