Enterprise 2.0 Roll-up: Social Media as a Necessity

After a less than pleasant 2009, Skype (news, site) is back to prove that it's still the number one VoIP platform. Here's a quick look at some of its latest moves:

Skype's CEO Josh Silverman has been replaced by Cisco's own Tony Bates. The once Senior Vice President and General Manager of Ciscos Enterprise, Commercial and Small Business Group, had US$ 20 billion in revenue and 12,500 employees at his old company. Skype’s annual revenue is about one-twentieth of that.

Though there were recent rumors of Cisco purchasing Skype, the VoIP platform's recent partnership with a sizable unified communications company called Avaya all but obliterates that possibility.

Last month, Skype launched a channel program to train and certify systems integrators. This sort of plan falls in line with their IPO filing by providing a bigger presence among small and mid-sized businesses.