Very good find, imho, the Oracle deal makes this a non-worry
infact im sure microsoft wanted GIPS to give them a "deal" on the codec, small unestablished companies that give "deals" dont last long imho. There was a clear comparison to quality comparisons w/ cisco but imho the discussion of quality was a bit vague and kind of gave the reader, possibly erroniously, the impression that msft's product was better than GIPS, back in my unenlightened days id give it up to microsoft by default but today they have got alot to prove, many products have not lived up to expecations.
oracle's recent anointing of GIPS says it all, i think that the market thought that the highly anticipated deal was w/ microsoft (which is usually a good bet) but the recent hiring of the Irish turn around expert for GIPS public relations office in san francisco indicates that GIPS was concentrating on a company in the bay area and not in Redmond WA