Lucid Imagination Suggests FAST Is Slowing Down
July 19, 2011
“Not So FAST,” quips Lucid Imagination. Unenthused about Microsoft’s treatment of its enterprise search acquisition, FAST, writer David M. Fishman reports on the latest development:
It seems that Microsoft is taking another step towards absorbing the technology once known as FAST Search and Transfer. Sadly, rather than absorb the expertise into the company, they’ve apparently furloughed the folks responsible for sales and marketing of the technologies known as FSIS and FSIA.
If this is true, the SharePoint centric search vendors are going to have a banner year.
Combined with the revelation back in February that Microsoft would limit the use of FAST to Windows users, this represents a poor showing by the software giant. We noted a post in another blog that seemed to suggest that Fast had crashed or was in the process of crashing. We don’t know what’s what with Fast. We find it fascinating that an open source search company is pointing to something that my reverberate through the enterprise search sector. Microsoft paid $1.2 billion for the Fast property in 2008. Now 36 months later chatter about clipping an oak tree while speeding on Highway 1? Yikes. I thought Stephen E Arnold, who pays me to write these items, suggested that Microsoft should have purchased Exalead. Well, Exalead is now owned by Dassault Systèmes may be poised to make some sales calls on Fast licensees. But every search vendor on the planet may have the same idea if this explosive notion is valid.
Do we think Microsoft will be feeling warm and happy about the Lucid Imagination blog post? No clue. We are far from the action in rural Kentucky and darned happy about that. Hey, while we’re on the subject: check out our SharePoint coverage in www.sharepointsemantics.com.
Cynthia Murrell, July 19, 2011
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