Check your math:
"Let's say they have 1 million active paying customers (nonsense, but what the Hell), each of those would have to be valued $100 to make Skype worth a billion. That is about twice the going value of a mobile phone customer. Ridiculous."
You are off by a factor of 10. If there are 1M customers, each is worth $1000 - about 20 times that of a cell phone customer.
The most interesting point to this which has been alluded to by some is whether there was a quip pro quo for the thousands of licenses that EV1 has and will buy from Microsoft. If this is happening, it is certainly a violation of anti-trust and could jeopardize the clients Marsh is trying to "protect". I hope this gets some real attention even though I dropped rackshack as a vendor some time ago. I hope the DOJ looks into it more. I recommend the disolution of business with this company for a number of reasons, not the least of which is their ethics.
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Check your math: "Let's say they have 1 million active paying customers (nonsense, but what the Hell), each of those would have to be valued $100 to make Skype worth a billion. That is about twice the going value of a mobile phone customer. Ridiculous." You are off by a factor of 10. If there are 1M customers, each is worth $1000 - about 20 times that of a cell phone customer.
I have a subscription to the newspaper, because I won't use a laptop while on the toilet. Ahhhhhh, multi-tasking at its finest!!
The most interesting point to this which has been alluded to by some is whether there was a quip pro quo for the thousands of licenses that EV1 has and will buy from Microsoft. If this is happening, it is certainly a violation of anti-trust and could jeopardize the clients Marsh is trying to "protect". I hope this gets some real attention even though I dropped rackshack as a vendor some time ago. I hope the DOJ looks into it more. I recommend the disolution of business with this company for a number of reasons, not the least of which is their ethics.