{"id":38593,"date":"2009-11-09T11:55:37","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T16:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.wordpress.com\/2009\/11\/09\/skype-names-sip-guru-as-chief-technology-strategist\/"},"modified":"2009-11-09T11:55:37","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T16:55:37","slug":"skype-names-sip-guru-as-chief-tech-strategist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/38593","title":{"rendered":"Skype Names SIP Guru as Chief Tech Strategist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='snap_preview'>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gigaom.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/skype_logo.png?w=105&amp;h=47&#038;h=47\" alt=\"\" width=\"105\" height=\"47\" \/>Skype has hired well-known VoIP expert Jonathan Rosenberg as its chief technology strategist, <a href=\"http:\/\/about.skype.com\/2009\/11\/skype_appoints_dr_jonathan_ros.html\">the company announced today<\/a>. Rosenberg was highlighted as one of the Cisco executives Index Ventures&#8217; Michael Volpi would bring over to Skype <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2009\/11\/01\/could-sip-really-save-skype\/\">in order to help the company figure out<\/a> a way around the JoltId stranglehold. <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2009\/11\/06\/my-thoughts-on-skype-settlement-winners-losers-scorecard\/\">As you might know<\/a>, Skype and Joltid, the company that owns the technology used by Skype (and controlled by founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis), settled with the company last week.<\/p>\n<p>Rosenberg is well-regarded in SIP circles and his hiring means that Skype is making a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/BTL\/?p=27008\">stronger push<\/a> into the enterprise. Rosenberg was a Cisco Fellow at Cisco Systems, where he directed technology strategy for its enterprise voice product portfolio. When I last spoke to Skype CEO Josh Silverman, he was pretty clear about his desire to turn Skype into a major enterprise voice and collaboration player. <strong>Rosenberg&#8217;s hiring is a smart step by Skype<\/strong>. (Related post: <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2009\/09\/22\/how-skype-plans-to-dominate-business-telephony\/\">How Skype Plans to Dominate Business Telephony.<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=gigaom.com&#038;blog=1149864&#038;post=78856&#038;subd=gigaom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=_N64kBESQ2w:TzxU5eomgyE:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=_N64kBESQ2w:TzxU5eomgyE:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=_N64kBESQ2w:TzxU5eomgyE:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=_N64kBESQ2w:TzxU5eomgyE:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=_N64kBESQ2w:TzxU5eomgyE:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=_N64kBESQ2w:TzxU5eomgyE:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=_N64kBESQ2w:TzxU5eomgyE:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=_N64kBESQ2w:TzxU5eomgyE:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/OmMalik\/~4\/_N64kBESQ2w\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skype has hired well-known VoIP expert Jonathan Rosenberg as its chief technology strategist, the company announced today. Rosenberg was highlighted as one of the Cisco executives Index Ventures&#8217; Michael Volpi would bring over to Skype in order to help the company figure out a way around the JoltId stranglehold. As you might know, Skype and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}