FAST Search integration announcement could be interesting.

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/jul07/07-17MSFASTSharepointPR.mspx?rss_fdn=Press%20Releases 

It seems like everyone is adding conceptual searching to SharePoint, it is soon to be commoditized. This is good as it will drive prices down. It is a much needed improvement to relevancy when dealing with large document sets. There had been some rumors previously about Microsoft putting together a crack search development team to work on a new search release, I doubt that is the case now. There are too many mature products out there like FAST and Autonomy to not just do deal instead of doing a rewrite. I wonder what announcements we see next regarding FAST.

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Published 19 July 2007 11:25 PM by notorioustech

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# Martin said on 20 July, 2007 01:56 PM

Hi Chris,

Great site.  Keep up the good work.

I have to disagree with you on the premise that the Fast/Microsoft announcment in some way bodes commoditization.  In fact, I think the opposite is true.  Commoditization occurs when a technology is added to an infrastructure stack or is open sourced.  In this case, neither is true.  Price points will not drop as a result of this partnership.  One article quoted Autonomy as charging $380k, and this doesn't include service revenure.

www.regdeveloper.co.uk/.../microsoft_autonomy_sharepoint

Cheers!

Martin

# Christopher on SharePoint Search said on 09 January, 2008 10:23 AM

Yes, I am one of them. More info: sharepointsearch.com/.../2008

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