http://www.texttechnologies.com/2005/12/09/the-text-technologies-market-1-it-should-be-huge/ 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/2005/12/09/the-text-technologies-market-1-it-should-be-huge/comment-page-1/#comment-7 The Monash Report»Blog Archive » How the text technologies market could ignite Sun, 11 Dec 2005 14:17:49 +0000 http://www.texttechnologies.com/?p=8#comment-7 [...] Over on the Text Technologies blog, I have a series of posts arguing that the potentially huge market for enterprise text technologies is being stifled by the lack of a general-purpose ontology management system. I further argue that such a product could be constructed in such a way as to be actually usable and potentially adopted by mainstream enterprises (no, you don’t need a trained librarian to use it). So what are the chances of something like this actually working out, to an industry-changing extent? [...] [...] Over on the Text Technologies blog, I have a series of posts arguing that the potentially huge market for enterprise text technologies is being stifled by the lack of a general-purpose ontology management system. I further argue that such a product could be constructed in such a way as to be actually usable and potentially adopted by mainstream enterprises (no, you don’t need a trained librarian to use it). So what are the chances of something like this actually working out, to an industry-changing extent? [...]

]]> http://www.texttechnologies.com/2005/12/09/the-text-technologies-market-1-it-should-be-huge/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Text Technologies»Blog Archive » The text technologies market 3: Here’s what’s missing Sun, 11 Dec 2005 06:47:19 +0000 http://www.texttechnologies.com/?p=8#comment-3 [...] The text technologies market should be booming, but actually is in disarray. How, then, do I think it should be fixed? I think the key problem can be summed up like this: [...] [...] The text technologies market should be booming, but actually is in disarray. How, then, do I think it should be fixed? I think the key problem can be summed up like this: [...]

]]> http://www.texttechnologies.com/2005/12/09/the-text-technologies-market-1-it-should-be-huge/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Text Technologies»Blog Archive » The text technologies market 2: It’s actually in disarray Fri, 09 Dec 2005 22:22:14 +0000 http://www.texttechnologies.com/?p=8#comment-2 [...] 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. [...]

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