Silver Lake Wants More Deals Like Skype

Even though eBay's $1.9 Billion sale of Skype to Silver Lake and a coalition of other investors has been the subject of a bitterly fought lawsuit, Silver Lake wants more of these "carve-out" deals, managing director Alan Austin told the Limited Partners Summit in Silicon Valley this afternoon. (Today is conference day for me). "Right now we have tremendous numbers of big companies looking around and saying, 'Hey, here's a business that's not core to us, we're thinking about selling.