http://www.texttechnologies.com/2005/11/04/autonomy-verity-so-what/ Understanding technology ... in both senses of the phrase Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:35:38 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.texttechnologies.com/2005/11/04/autonomy-verity-so-what/comment-page-1/#comment-3593 Text Technologies»Blog Archive » The text technologies market 2: It’s actually in disarray Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:35:58 +0000 http://www.texttechnologies.com/2005/11/04/autonomy-verity-so-what/#comment-3593 [...] The text technologies market should be huge and thriving. Actually, however, it’s in disarray. Multiple generations of enterprise search vendors have floundered, with the Autonomy/Verity merger being basically a combination of the weak. The RDBMS vendors came up with decent hybrid tabular/text offerings, and almost nobody cared. (Admittedly, part of the reason for that is that the best offering was Oracle’s, and Oracle almost always screws up its ancillary businesses. Email searchability has been ridiculously bad since — well, since the invention of email. And speech technology has floundered for decades, with most of the survivors now rolled into the new version of Nuance. [...] [...] The text technologies market should be huge and thriving. Actually, however, it’s in disarray. Multiple generations of enterprise search vendors have floundered, with the Autonomy/Verity merger being basically a combination of the weak. The RDBMS vendors came up with decent hybrid tabular/text offerings, and almost nobody cared. (Admittedly, part of the reason for that is that the best offering was Oracle’s, and Oracle almost always screws up its ancillary businesses. Email searchability has been ridiculously bad since — well, since the invention of email. And speech technology has floundered for decades, with most of the survivors now rolled into the new version of Nuance. [...]

]]> http://www.texttechnologies.com/2005/11/04/autonomy-verity-so-what/comment-page-1/#comment-1685 Text Technologies»Blog Archive » Update: Autonomy/Verity merger Thu, 03 Aug 2006 02:21:22 +0000 http://www.texttechnologies.com/2005/11/04/autonomy-verity-so-what/#comment-1685 [...] I had a couple of very interesting calls with Autonomy last week. One message I got was that they do not want to be pigeonholed in search, which they think on the whole is a primitive way of dealing with unstructured information. Nonetheless, my first post based on those calls will indeed focus on text indexing and search. You see, I wrote quite skeptically about the Autonomy/Verity merger when it was announced, and I’d like to amend that with an updated opinion. Autonomy’s claims can be summarized in part by the following: [...] [...] I had a couple of very interesting calls with Autonomy last week. One message I got was that they do not want to be pigeonholed in search, which they think on the whole is a primitive way of dealing with unstructured information. Nonetheless, my first post based on those calls will indeed focus on text indexing and search. You see, I wrote quite skeptically about the Autonomy/Verity merger when it was announced, and I’d like to amend that with an updated opinion. Autonomy’s claims can be summarized in part by the following: [...]

]]> http://www.texttechnologies.com/2005/11/04/autonomy-verity-so-what/comment-page-1/#comment-1550 The Monash Report»Blog Archive » Autonomy/Verity merger Sun, 23 Jul 2006 04:51:09 +0000 http://www.texttechnologies.com/2005/11/04/autonomy-verity-so-what/#comment-1550 [...] As posted in the Text Technologies blog, I’m skeptical yet slightly hopeful about the combined Autonomy/Verity company. Each of those companies sells overall technology that’s less than the sum of its parts. Maybe the merged company will be big enough to wake up, add what’s missing, and grow the enterprise text search market beyond its current level of: [...] [...] As posted in the Text Technologies blog, I’m skeptical yet slightly hopeful about the combined Autonomy/Verity company. Each of those companies sells overall technology that’s less than the sum of its parts. Maybe the merged company will be big enough to wake up, add what’s missing, and grow the enterprise text search market beyond its current level of: [...]

]]> http://www.texttechnologies.com/2005/11/04/autonomy-verity-so-what/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Mark Wong-VanHaren Sat, 14 Jan 2006 09:05:04 +0000 http://www.texttechnologies.com/2005/11/04/autonomy-verity-so-what/#comment-13 Could you elaborate as to why you feel Excite's search failed? Thanks. Could you elaborate as to why you feel Excite’s search failed? Thanks.

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