IBM and Yahoo announced the third release (version 8.4.2) of OmniFind. (See release.)
Perhaps no ECM technology has ridden a more tumultuous roller coaster than search. Search was in teh limelight in the late 1980s, went into near obscurity via integration in the mid-1990s, and is now hotter than ever. With the advent of the internet, the power of effective search against vast content collections became obvious for business users, both inside and outside the firewall.
Of late, attention has predominately been on the companies such as Google, FAST and Endeca. These companies and their respective products do indeed represent new offerings for enterprise search, but with this announcement by IBM, we are reminded that search is still a focus for solution providers such as IBM (among others, Xerox and Autonomy). Indeed, IBM must be credited with introducing text-based search to the market with its Stairs product more than a quarter of a century ago. Much has been done to enhance Search from IBM since those early days. This grandad - or "fat lady" of the search market continues to be a player in the game with enhancements being made not only to their Yahoo internet edition, but to the OmniFind Enterprise Search tool as well. Search ain't over yet folks, and this is likely not this fat lady's final aria.
