I know just a company like Skype, its called Damaka (www.damaka.com). Damaka has a true SIP based Peer to Peer technology that delivers instant message, chat, voice calls, audio conference up to four people, VOICE MAIL, encrypted media, hold/resume, multiple calls on a line, multiple lines, the list goes on and on and all this is done peer to peer which means that you don’t need any servers in the middle and therefore its really ideal to license this and deploy it in the enterprise.

I think MS needs to buy this company called Damaka and give away their technology for free on the mass population side and license it on the enterprise side. They should incorporate Damaka’s technology into their Groove solution as well as into their instant messaging solution.

Damaka uses a direct peering model where you are communicating and collaborating DIRECTLY with the user and eliminating any kind of servers in the middle so, you can have infinite number of users without any need of having any servers in the middle to support its user base.

I think it is very powerful when you can put two users or even more users in a multi-media conference and DON’T require any kind of servers in the middle.

This Direct Peering model is very powerful and I think MS needs exactly a solution like this to reestablish its leadership both at the consumer level and at the enterprise level. Otherwise I think Google will eat them up alive.