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VoIP Provider Vonage Planning IPO?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the wild-conjecture dept.

SixDimensionalArray writes "The rumor mill is exploding with stories that large voice-over-ip (VoIP) provider Vonage is planning an initial public offering to raise nearly $600 million. This information is interesting coming out not long after Google's recent release of Google Talk, which overs instant messaging/VoIP services PC-to-PC as well as a surge in marketing by VoIP providers such as Covad and Skype. Could this be yet another bubble?"

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  1. Re:Is VoIP Reall That Big? by TheComputerMutt.ca · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm looking at Virgin Mobile, they don't seem to be too bad. Of course, the only reason I'm actually considering them is because they have good ringtones available. :P

  2. Why so much fuss about one single step? by papaia · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I am trying to understand why so much fuss and waste of /. resources, about VoIP or IPTelephony (for the puritans who want to separate the two), when voice is just another communication methodology, meant to be brought alongside all the others, for a final unification of information exchange?
    Application unification and network convergence dictate such steps (be it VoIP, or industrial ethernet, or whatever ...), but none of them is the "final" target. The real target should be ease of access to information, via a common infrastructure, with an accesible set of interfaces, and the communications means of exchanging such (info), eventually. If you look at the problem this way, then you would see that transport, storage, query, etc. are functions which could not be universally applicable, over different facets of communication, unless things like VoIP happen (and NOT because of ROIs!).

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  3. RE: Google talk by Siddly · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Don't you just love those companies whose businesses are solidly based on Linux, whose products run on Linux, but don't cater for the Linux user? Google, TomTom and even some Linux-based firewalls that don't support Linux clients.

  4. Re:How to tell if you are a VOIP fanatic. by Ingolfke · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    34. You think the reason your co-workers don't want to hear about your Linux hacking stories every morning is because they're idiots and don't understand real technology. In fact it's because you've elected to continue tweaking your Gentoo box each morning for the past 4 days instead of bathing. You smell.