Archive for the ‘Analysis’ Category
Monday, November 23rd, 2009
Recently, News Corp. has been making a lot of noise about removing their web properties from Google's search index. This appears to be a desperate move being made by a company that has not adequately embraced the culture or technology of the Internet. The important aspect of a total removal ...
Posted in Analysis | No Comments »
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
Recently, we looked at the Skype sale drama, and now it appears as if there may be a shift in the deal. Both the NYTimes and GigaOM are reporting that a settlement may soon be reached between Skype co-founders, Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom and the private investors acquiring the ...
Posted in Analysis | No Comments »
Saturday, September 19th, 2009
Recently, it was announced that eBay sold 65% of Skype to a consortium of private investors, led by Silver Lake for $2.75 billion. At first, this deal sounded great considering eBay purchased Skype for $2.6 billion in 2005 and was never was able to realize the original goal of integrating ...
Posted in Analysis | No Comments »
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
In a previous post, we discussed the history of Oracle and MySQL. In this post we will focus on Oracle's relationship with its new star, Java.
History
Oracle made its first big move into the Java space in 2001 when it acquired a non-exclusive license for the source code of Sweden-based IronFlare ...
Posted in Analysis, Research | No Comments »
Saturday, May 2nd, 2009
Recently, after a failed bid by IBM, Sun announced that they will be selling the company to Oracle for $7.4B. At Deft Labs, we saw the writing on the wall for this deal in January of 2008. This post examines the historical relationship between Oracle and MySQL and looks at ...
Posted in Analysis | No Comments »
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
Recently, it was announced that Microsoft is suing GPS device manufacturer, TomTom over GPS patent violations. TomTom runs on the open source Linux operating system and a lot of people believe this is an attempt by Microsoft to assert their perceived intellectual property rights over Linux.
Normally, this news would not ...
Posted in Analysis | No Comments »
Saturday, September 6th, 2008
If you examine the pressure on the content distribution industry by top tier ISPs, it's clear this industry is changing. ISPs are now competing against their transit and hosting customers for content distribution business. This is a fairly bold move for ISPs, but it's clear that they're starting to question ...
Posted in Analysis | No Comments »
Saturday, September 6th, 2008
For over five years, Skype has flown under the radar with their P2P based messaging system. Because of the distributed nature of P2P, they've been able to deploy a minimal amount of infrastructure to support their always-on solution. Unfortunately, we think that Skype/eBay is in for a rude awakening.
As last-mile ...
Posted in Analysis | No Comments »
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
After our post yesterday on Google and The Sushi Chefs we were shocked to discover that we didn't have any RSS subscribers. According to our analytics data, the article was incredibly popular.
According to FeedBurner, everyone has unsubscribed (including everyone at Deft Labs)! We're sure this is simply a glitch but ...
Posted in Analysis | 2 Comments »
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
Earlier this month, Kevin P. Ryan and Henry Blodget from AlleyCorp discussed Google's recent market decline and what this means for the company. It is Ryan's opinion that Google will be forced to reduce their workforce. This will be the real test of Google's conviction to give back to their ...
Posted in Analysis | No Comments »
