Christopher Even on SharePoint Search

http://www.enterprisesearchsummit.com/west/ 

The last one in NY was fun and very interesting. See my post  Got to meet all of the Enterprise Search vendors not just the SharePoint focused ones.

Anyways, I am planning on being there the 5th - 7th so if any readers out there are also going to be there let me know, I would love to meet up for a beer.

Note: I will be bringing sharepointsearch.com toys to handout :)

So by now you must have heard through the grapevine that Mondosoft was going to be liquidated by it's VC's because of insolvency.

Well yesterday the company was purchased by Surfray www.surfray.com who is a Mondosearch competitor.

It appears that they have no interest in the Ontolica product and are considering selling it off.

If you do a search on google for mondosoft and surfray you will find alot of Danish articles about this. What is interesting is that it appears in March of this year Surfray attempted a hostile takeover of Mondosoft by going directly to its shareholders and stating "Mondosoft ist eine Firma, die in einer Krise steckt aus der wir Ihnen helfen können" sagt SurfRay´s CEO Martin Veise zur dänischen IT Zeitschrift Computerworld . or somewhat translated: Soft Mondo is a company that in a crisis from which we can help," says SurfRay's CEO Martin Veise to Danish IT magazine Computer World.

And how did we all miss this? For me at least, it's because I don't speak Danish.

I hope it all works out for the Ontolica product and especially Lars (who is a friend), 

How many SI's, search consultants (yes me too), vendors and even Microsoft have recommended to their customers the Ontolica product? I suppose if the current installation works....