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Enterprise Search: $1 Billion Dollar market

By Dick Weisinger

Gartner estimates that in 2008 Enterprise Search will bring in $989.7 million. It’s interesting that that amount is less than what Microsoft plans to pay for just one vendor in the Enterprise Search space. Microsoft’s offer to buy Norway’s Fast…

Search Technology: Google Squables Over Vendor's Claims

By Dick Weisinger

Google has taken issue with claims about its Enterprise Search Appliance from Enterprise Search company Autonomy. Autonomy had published a whitepaper critiquing Google Enterprise search. The criticisms include: The Google Appliance fails to search all enterprise-critical data The Google Appliance…

Technology: Yahoo! + Microsoft = MicroHoo!?

By Dick Weisinger

Microsoft has “pulled an Oracle”. In a surprise move, Microsoft made a $45 billion hostile takeover bid for Yahoo!. Microsoft is threatening a “sledgehammer tactic” of ousting most boardroom members within six weeks unless Yahoo! accepts the offer. The move…

Technology: Five-Year Predictions. Trends for the Enterprise

By Dick Weisinger

Gartner has come out with a list of five-year top-10 predictions. 80% of commerical software will have some component of Open Source SaaS will account for one third of business application dollars in 2012 Infrastructure as a Service will be…

SaaS: Amazon Web Services Overtakes Amazon.com

By Dick Weisinger

Amazon.com announced yesterday that their on-demand Web Services infrastructure program is now bigger than all of Amazon.com when measured by bandwidth. And Amazon.com now is the 7th largest web site when measured by bandwidth. “Adoption of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud…