Fast Search at PDC 2008
November 10, 2008
A happy quack to the reader who alerted me to a Web log post by Philippe Sentenac here. The 45 minute session was to cover a number of topics. Mr. Sentenac’s opinion was that most of these topics had been covered elsewhere. However, he did snag several interesting points about Fast Search, a unit of Microsoft that is the subject of a police investigation. First, he notes that FAST ESP integration is underway by Fast engineers. Fast ESP will be focused on indexing Web sites. Prior to the Microsoft acquisition, ESP was a system used to index enterprise content. A version of ESP for SharePoint will be developed to handle SharePoint installations with more than 50 million documents. Here’s the screen shot reproduced by Mr. Sentenac showing this two-part approach to Fast Search’s technology:
I don’t have a back up source for this information. My recommendation is that you view this as an interesting possibility, not a formal program. If I were working at the Microsoft Fast office in Oslo, Norway, I would be thinking about the police investigation, not the integration of ESP with SharePoint. But that’s just my opinion. I am sure that none of the Microsoft Fast executives or engineers are troubled by the possibly unwarranted investigation allegedly related to financial dealings.
Stephen Arnold, November 10, 2008
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