Hi,

Skype should start where Parlano (or unified comm.) ends. Enterprise solutions like Microsoft's are great but they lack a *very* important feature: Customers do not use them :). Customers like Skype because its an "runs everywhere" solution, friends use skype .. all these things.

But Skype is a plain No-No!!! when it comes to corporate security. Which is absolutly not understandable to me.

- You have the abillity to write logfiles in a DB-Style, not just plaintext like MSN or ICQ. But there is no option to ENFORCE Logging and DENY deletion. Why not?!

- You ship an ADM File (thanks!) and great MSI installation (thanks again) for business use but on the other hand you do not build-in a feature that lets me DISBALE calls or display sharing? Why not?! Noone within a real company can allow deploying a software for sharing the display.

Its great that Skype uses so many NAT tunneling strategies but making a company able to lock those down by a group policy would have no effect on those features in the real world. All these features are ok, you *want* the notebook guy who's 8000 miles away from home to use skype when he calls HQ. But you do not want the sensitive desks make/get calls to the outside world (or you wish to have those calls recorded).
You never ever want the Sales Desk to send files (thanks to the ADM) or share displays, ... so companies will have to use two solutions... sad.

Implement and sell the Enterprise MSI/ADM for like ... 25$ a desk, 15$ if you buy more than 50.. I'd buy it :)