Skype is not Googlish in architecture but very Googlish in spirit.
Skype is purely client technology, where the System is built on power of Network Nodes (our PCs that have too much unused power to spend).
Google is much more server oriented, where Google is investing a lot on server infrastructure and the tiny bits of client technology that started to appear in Google products is not yet any option to their powerfult server-orientation.
The only pure server-side Skype element is registration/authentication server. The only bits of Skype that can be considered server-side are: SkypeOut nodes, SkypeIn nodes, Voicemail nodes, Seed supernodes but they are still Nodes of p2p network.
However if Skype would be bought-out by Skype, the whole Skype network would benefit from Seed supernodes that are in Google' datacenters. And Google's lit darkfiber;) to have even lower roudtrip time.
Ok. I see that Skype is interested in Google more then Google is interested in Skype, unless they merge Skype with Hello! and Picassa and do some valuable interconnections between all Google's desktop software (Google Web Accelerator, Google Desktop, Hello-Skype, Picassa, Video ?Uploader?) like they have with Hello-Blogger, Picassa-Hello, Picassa-Blogger (via Hello). With addition Skype' Conferencing, Voice and Video to Hello (or vice versa, Hello' picture sharing to Skype;), and Video to Picassa, we can see come to powerful personal media organizer and communication tool.
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Skype is not Googlish in architecture but very Googlish in spirit.
;) to have even lower roudtrip time.
;), and Video to Picassa, we can see come to powerful personal media organizer and communication tool.
Skype is purely client technology, where the System is built on power of Network Nodes (our PCs that have too much unused power to spend).
Google is much more server oriented, where Google is investing a lot on server infrastructure and the tiny bits of client technology that started to appear in Google products is not yet any option to their powerfult server-orientation.
The only pure server-side Skype element is registration/authentication server. The only bits of Skype that can be considered server-side are: SkypeOut nodes, SkypeIn nodes, Voicemail nodes, Seed supernodes but they are still Nodes of p2p network.
However if Skype would be bought-out by Skype, the whole Skype network would benefit from Seed supernodes that are in Google' datacenters. And Google's lit darkfiber
Ok. I see that Skype is interested in Google more then Google is interested in Skype, unless they merge Skype with Hello! and Picassa and do some valuable interconnections between all Google's desktop software (Google Web Accelerator, Google Desktop, Hello-Skype, Picassa, Video ?Uploader?) like they have with Hello-Blogger, Picassa-Hello, Picassa-Blogger (via Hello). With addition Skype' Conferencing, Voice and Video to Hello (or vice versa, Hello' picture sharing to Skype
Watch Google!