Microsoft is digging in for a fight with Google in the enterprise search market.
Web search leader Google is hoping to rev up lacklustre sales in the enterprise search market with an updated hardware and software package that promises faster and more comprehensive results for corporations, governments and universities.
The software giant has announced an offer to acquire Norwegian enterprise search provider FAST, ending months of speculation of a planned move into the premium search market.
Google has launched its latest hardware search appliance aimed at the business market, and this time the company is targeting small to medium-sized companies with what it claims is its "most affordable Mini ever".
Enterprise search company Autonomy announced it will acquire Verity for approximately US$500 million.
The world's most adored tech company faced an unexpected string of criticism at its keynote in CeBIT last week.
At yesterday's launch of Google's enterprise search appliance, product manager Kevin Gough argued that Google itself was an essential business tool, since practically no-one could get through the day without conducting at least one search using the popular site.
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John Chen sits down in a Face to Face interview with ZDNet editor-in-chief Dan Farber to talk about Sybase's high-end database, offered for free in a limited version to mainly small and midsize businesses. The CEO believes that as customer needs grow, they'll upgrade, paying Sybase for value-added tools that handle larger data sets, unstructured data, search, EII, federated databases and other functions.
Tech giants' newfound respect for consumer power is their roundabout way of winning enterprise customers, says CNET News.com's Mike Ricciuti.
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Aimed at small to medium-size enterprises (SMEs) that need a search engine without the hassles, the Google Mini is capable and flexible. We just wish the upgrade path was more affordable.
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