Ontolica in flux?

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....

 

 

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Published Friday, October 26, 2007 2:59 PM by notorioustech
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Saturday, October 27, 2007 5:20 PM by Bobby Forester

# re: Ontolica in flux?

The status of Ontolica is very confusing to customers, partners, and prospects.  Originally brought in to help "save" Mondosoft, Ontolica couldn't overcome Mondosoft's past.

As it stands, nothing has changed for our customers and partners.  The entire team is still on board continuing to develop and support the product.  There have been no layoffs, employee concessions, or even a slow-down in marketing/sales efforts.  Please stop by next week at our booth at SharePoint Connections in Las Vegas to further discuss.

Ontolica has proven itself to be an outstanding solution to a major headache in the MOSS 2007 market.  That market is growing exponentially.  With little competition it's only logical that Ontolica continue to be an ongoing concern.  Whether part of Surfray, an entity on it's own, or part of another company, Ontolica will continue and grow.  There is just too much positive momentum in the market and goodwill SharePoint community for any other conclusion.

Lars Fastrup is an outstanding developer.  It's known by many that you, Chris, and Lars are the world's two leading minds in SharePoint Search.  Few know better than yourself just how compelling a solution this really is.

This will shake out over the next few weeks.  What I can say for certain is that Ontolica will come out of this a better, stronger, and more stable company.

Feel free to email me at bfo@mondosoft.com, or bforester@ontolica.com.  I'll see many of you in Las Vegas next week!

Saturday, October 27, 2007 5:30 PM by notorioustech

# re: Ontolica in flux?

Thank you Bobby.

That is great to hear, I am sure many are greatful for this update, customers and consultants!!

I am not going to be at the SharePoint Connections conference next week but will be at the Enterprise Search Summit the week after where you guys have a booth.

If you need anything from me or SharePointSearch.com just ask and we will post an update.

Regards.

Tuesday, December 02, 2008 12:40 PM by Josh Noble

# re: Ontolica in flux?

Obviously this comment is being made a year after the original posts.  If this is still being read, I just want to state that as a SurfRay employee, both the MondoSearch and Ontolica products are still sold and supported.  We have no intention of discontinuing either product lines, and if you have any questions please direct them to me.

Josh Noble

jno@surfray.com

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