Oracle gets sexier with TripleHop acquisition

Added By Tony Byrne at 15-Sep-2005 | Twitter: @TonyByrne |

While I wasn't looking this past summer, Oracle "acquired certain assets" of TripleHop, a specialized enterprise search vendor. Oracle didn't make much noise about it at the time (e.g. no press release), but it looks like TripleHop customers and staff are both moving over. As Enterprise Search Report readers know, TripleHop's technology offers Oracle many new-fangled (if not well battle-tested) techniques, like contextual search, as well as specific industry applications, to complement Oracle's traditional emphasis on powerful search infrastructure. Oracle's pitch to search customers has tended to emphasize core engineering and (usually impressive) test results. Now look for Oracle to try to challenge Endeca and other pure-play enterprise search vendors head-to-head on features.

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