Thunderstone Rolls Out Government Promotion
March 25, 2010
A happy quack to the reader who alerted me to a new Thunderstone promotion targeting state and local government clients. Thunderstone, a long-time player in search and content processing, was one of the first, if not the first, search vendor to offer a plug-and-play search appliance. As I gathered information for my various research reports about search, I kept learning that other vendors had licensed technology from Thunderstone. One example was the Thunderstone stemmer which turned up in Personal Library Software I wrote in one of my notebooks. PLS went to AOL and then became an open source product by the way.
The link from the reader pointed to “State and Local Governments Offered Search Appliance Savings Program.” The idea is that state and local governments will get the same discount that Thunderstone offers the US Federal government. The General Services Administration itself encourages states to use the GSA schedule.
You can read an interview with a Thunderstone executive in the Search Wizards Speak information collection on the ArnoldIT.com site.
The state and local government market sector is one that has been on the sidelines for a number of years. Perhaps this is changing?
Stephen E Arnold, Mar
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