The Web CMS Report looks at... A Different Microsoft Platform for Enterprise Search

"Microsoft says it has invested heavily in search, betting it will become a main foundational component of many solutions. At the same time, the company in early 2008 moved to acquire long-standing enterprise search vendor Fast Search & Transfer (FAST), for $1.2 Billion. In justifying the acquisition, Microsoft executives cited FAST's talent and technologies. FAST is a complex (and very expensive) system, pieces of which may end up in MOSS, but in the long run, look for Microsoft to re-brand it as a separate product for larger, enterprise search scenarios. Among other challenges for Redmond, much of FAST's technology runs on very non-Microsofty Java and Python. "

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