(Score:3, Interesting)
by majid on 09-05-01 5:25 FWT
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Disclaimer: I used to work for FT, but no longer. My comments in no way indicate any official position of the company.
First of all, you need to realize that FT is an extremely large company, where the right hand usually doesn't know what the left hand is doing, and where 7ドルM is pocket change.
They do have very smart people in their R&D centers, and Patrick Puges, who is mentioned in the press release, used to be the CTO of Transpac, their Enterprise data networks division. This can suggest an enterprise slant to this story, or alternatively, a tie-in with their equivalent of Bell Labs, i.e. an upstream hedge-your-bets kind of investment.
One can only conjecture, but the real-time directory and presence service that are the base for an IM product have a strong chance of being core infrastructure for future communication services.
Most of the people who work at FT have a strong suspicion of proprietary solutions and do not want to kiss Steve Case or Bill Gates' rings. FT thus has a motive in nurturing an open alternative.
You can see this as poisoning potential competitors' wells, just as Sun's investment in StarOffice makes sense as a way to starve Microsoft's Office revenue stream in the long term.
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Posté par Anonyme . En réponse à la dépêche FT investit dans le logiciel de messagerie instantanée Jabber. Évalué à 0.
by majid on 09-05-01 5:25 FWT
(User #306017 Info)
Disclaimer: I used to work for FT, but no longer. My comments in no way indicate any official position of the company.
First of all, you need to realize that FT is an extremely large company, where the right hand usually doesn't know what the left hand is doing, and where 7ドルM is pocket change.
They do have very smart people in their R&D centers, and Patrick Puges, who is mentioned in the press release, used to be the CTO of Transpac, their Enterprise data networks division. This can suggest an enterprise slant to this story, or alternatively, a tie-in with their equivalent of Bell Labs, i.e. an upstream hedge-your-bets kind of investment.
One can only conjecture, but the real-time directory and presence service that are the base for an IM product have a strong chance of being core infrastructure for future communication services.
Most of the people who work at FT have a strong suspicion of proprietary solutions and do not want to kiss Steve Case or Bill Gates' rings. FT thus has a motive in nurturing an open alternative.
You can see this as poisoning potential competitors' wells, just as Sun's investment in StarOffice makes sense as a way to starve Microsoft's Office revenue stream in the long term.