that is a very interesting point, the question is now whether
the article is not sugar coating he results but moreover will
skype start to license this codec?
clearly GIPS's performance has priced in lots of competition
over the past several years and increasingly so. However
for businesses w/ a huge cubicle bound workforce headsets are
hear to stay, Spirit DSP has pushed for extreemly flexible
multiple user environments, but as someone familiar w/ the
mathematics of generalization, there are an unlimited number
of user configurations that one can conceive of, however
the attention span of human users limits the utility of
maximal flexibility. Clearly GIPS is considering all of the
most useful widely used applications and doing that well imho
especially in how they differentiate them.
too much flexibility can really bog users down with an
abstract learning curve etc.
One should not forget about GIPS's developer community, you
can download the GIPS codec and set up a free developers inv.
where you can experiment with various user configurations if
you choose to commercialize an application w/ GIPS's codec
you need to then license the codec. Its not clear to me
whether skype, or microsoft have such options available to
developers. Further the developers that are fully familiar
w/ GIPS can be reluctant to shift into a new environment w/
an unproven product.
getting back to skype, they have a number of issues regarding
widespread usage for the enterprise, i have no doubt that they
would have loved the oracle deal but GIPS was the one that
was awarded it.
there is no doubt that GIPS faces some challanges however its
pretty clear that with 500% revenue growth in their guidance
and probably more than double that % to their bottom line
the company sees challanges quite a bit differently from the
typical enterprise
p2k
