Skype competition cooling

While many companies have emerged to challenge Skype's P2P VoIP model, few have risen beyond a few shortlived screams into the darkness of the network. Peerio has sent out a few new press released, but a visit to their web site shows that the technology is STILL unreleased. The folks at LitFiber seem to be doing a little bit better with a claim of a 1.0 product release now downloadable... but the 15,000 downloads the company says it has had so far is underwhelming.

Has this cow already left the barn? Can anyone catch Skype?