SurfRay: Has the Company Missed the Search Wave. Nope
August 29, 2008
Update: October 26, 2008
I have summarized several of the themes from my write ups and from the posts to the SurfRay thread. You can find this article at http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2008/10/24/surfray-round-up/ or click here.
Update: August 29, 2008
SurfRay is alive and well. A phone glitch plus the unfortunate unanswered emails from me gave me the impression that this company was realigning. You can contact the company at this phone number, which is now working: +45 70 250 250. I’m tracking the company because I have been a long time fan of the Mondosoft SharePoint solution. (Why Microsoft ignored this system still baffles me. And, as you may know, I have been a strong advocate of the Speed of Mind technology to cure the DB2 and Oracle performance headaches. So, don’t wait. Snag the solution the Vatican uses for its multilingual Web site here www.surfray.com.
Original post querying for information:
Last May 2007, I made a comment about the change in ownership of Mondosoft, the Danish search engine company. I speculated that management changes in 2006 and the company’s merging with SurfRay, a Copenhagen based technology and services company, left the future of Mondosoft in doubt. After my panel, an earnest Dane told me that SurfRay and Mondosoft were in business and servicing their 1,500 customers. One of these customers is the Vatican, and I concluded that the Swiss Guards would take strong action against me if I suggested that the Church’s search engine was an orphan.
A colleague in Europe alerted me on Tuesday, August 26, 2008, that the SurfRay telephone number is no longer being answered. I asked a colleague who speaks Danish to verify the number and talk to a person at SurfRay. No luck. My hope is that this is a telephone glitch, and not a more serious issue with the company.
The Mondosoft search system was one of the first “snap in” replacements for native SharePoint search-and-retrieval services. The company also was among the first search vendors to include Web site analytics as part of the company’s search system. I used screen shots of the reports that showed which pages attracted users and which triggered abandonment of a site. Mondosoft also acquired Ontolica, a specialist in taxonomy and content processing, to add additional indexing to SharePoint content.
SurfRay snapped up a company called Speed of Mind. In the first edition of the Enterprise Search Report, which I wrote for CMSWatch.com, I profiled this company. Speed of Mind’s technology used an innovation to accelerate access to information and data in tables generated by Oracle, IBM DB2 and Informix, and My SQL. I met the founders of Speed of Mind and was impressed with their unique approach to cracking the problem of making searchable the most recent updates to a database table in near real time.
SurfRay had other technology, but I focused on the search, content processing, and database access systems. The SurfRay Web site is still online at www.surfray.com. If anyone has additional information about the company, please, let me know. If the firm shutters its doors, a number of major accounts will be in the market for a replacement search engine. The changes that Microsoft continues to make in its SharePoint system make it tough to “freeze” a search system while the SharePoint environment is changing.
Stephen Arnold, August 29, 2008
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Stephen,
I guess the question was more, do still belive in MondoSearch?
Anonymous,
Asked and answered.
Stephen Arnold, November 24, 2008
Another one of the assets in the setup of companies run by Martin Veise has been up on a foreclosure auction as well (late september this year).
info: http://www.statstidende.dk/default.aspx?pg=35.1.-1.-1&index=16&p=5,y&date1=01.12.2003&date2=01.12.2008&SearchType=1&mode=2&SearchTerm=veise
One has to wonder how they manage to stay afloat.
Could it be true that Martin is seen with Stein Bagger in Asia or did he attend his property foreclosure auction this morning in Denmark.
http://www.computerworld.dk/art/49184/bagmandspoliti-vil-have-alt-om-bagger-frem?a=block&i=188&pos=6
Now Surfray AB is in bankruptcy; https://poit.bolagsverket.se/KPNPublikWeb/PublikPoitIn.do
How long can Surfray A/S survive?
Not long the proceedings has already started… None of the employees have got the salary payment and according to danish law, Surfray now has about 2 weeks to find all the money or die as predicted by … well everybody except the employees.
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Insane what Martin Veise did. I just saw another story where a Search Engine co-founder named James C Fink impersonated an officer to get another co-founder fired. I wonder if the bad economic times are going to increase stories like this.