Cisco has appealed against the decision of the European Commission to the acquisition of Skype by Microsoft to approve it. According to Cisco the supervisor interoperability enforce through strict terms and conditions.
Cisco states that it is not against the acquisition of Skype by Microsoft, but the company believes that the proprietary voip and video protocols of the Skype software will eventually disturb the market can work. Microsoft, that is working to Skype in many of its products to integrate, including the business Lync Enterprise Communications Platform, would have a dominant position on the market for voip and video services.
According to Cisco, the European Commission, the acquisition, in October it approved once more at the light and it should be additional conditions need to enforce that the Skype technology with open standards and can communicate. So would equipment and software from Cisco, but also other brands, hassle-free be able to communicate with on Skype-based software and hardware. The company has the appeal lodged with the Luxembourg-serving the European Court. This may the European Commission terugfluiten in antitrust cases, although relatively few for.
Although Cisco with its video conferencing products on the enterprise market is a major player, it is on the consumer market is still not very successful with such products. The company, according to AllThingsD tried to contact them with Microsoft to try its products to make them compatible with Skype protocols. The two would, however, no agreement is reached.