Mark Logic and Basis Technology
October 13, 2008
Browsing the Basis Technology Web site revealed an October 7, 2008, news release about a Basis Technology and Mark Logic tie up. You can read the news release here or here. Basis Technology licenses text and content processing components and systems. The Basis Technology announcement says “Rosette Entity Extractor provides advanced search and text analytics for MarkLogic Server 4.0.” Mark Logic, as I have noted elsewhere in this Web log, is one of the leading providers of XML server technology. The new version can store, manage, search, and deliver content in a variety of forms to individual users, other enterprise systems, or to devices. REX (shorthand for Rosette Entity Extractor) can identify people, organizations, locations, numeric strings such as credit card numbers, email address, geographic data, and other items such as dates from unstructured or semi structured content. I don’t have details on the deal. My take on this is that Mark Logic wants to put its XML engine into gear and drive into market spaces not now well served with applications and functions in other vendors’ XML systems. Enterprise search is dead. Long live more sophisticated information and data management systems. Search will be tucked in these solutions, but it’s no longer the focal point of the system. I am pondering the impact of this announcement on other XML vendors and upon such companies as Microsoft Fast Search.
Stephen Arnold, October 13, 2008
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