Well, that was quick. With the news this morning that Tony Bates, a senior VP at Cisco who runs its Enterprise Group is exiting the company to become CEO of Skype, Cisco is announcing that CTO

Skype is taking another step towards becoming a public company today with the appointment of a new CEO. We don’t yet know who it is, but the announcement should be coming out shortly. Skype’s current CEO, Josh Silverman, will be moving on.

The company recently filed to go public in August. And while there were rumors that a company like