New Oracle White Paper: How To Move from Ultra Search to Secure Enterprise Search
May 9, 2008
On April 22 Oracle released a new (to me) white paper on switching over to its new Secure Enterprise Search (SES) program. The company is discontinuing its previous search product, Ultra Search, an engine used to find public documents on corporate servers at large. SES will be included in all future products.
The paper is meant to be a tool to help users migrate from Ultra Search to SES, described as a newer, faster and more secure product developed from Ultra Search building blocks.
Customers are “strongly urged” to make the change to SES. Sounds ominous to me. I wonder if that means Oracle will not only be dropping Ultra Search, but also any support for the older search engine. There’s also a list of ten considerations for migration, and those ten things are not necessarily working in SES’s favor. “Strongly urged,” indeed.
What really caught my attention was this, stated plainly on Page 2: “There are many new features in SES not included in UltraSearch. This document considers only features which have changed, or existed in UltraSearch, but are not present in SES.” Why would you talk about features NOT present in the newer system?
Oracle database administrators understand Oracle reasoning. I’m not a certified Oracle DBA. Ergo, I’m only amused by this trope.
You can download the somewhat hard-to-find document here. Get a copy now before it eludes the Oracle search technology.
Stephen Arnold, May 10, 2008
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