Surfray and Xerox
July 18, 2009
Surfray popped on my radar thanks to an email from a reader in Canada. The reader noticed that Xerox lists SurfRay XP Search as one of its office products. You can view the listing here. The full listing for the Surfray search system references the following features for – and I quote — “Multi-channel secure-routed dynamic document production and printing APPIC StarJet.” I am not sure what this Xerox product is. The product brochure is here. According to the Xerox document:
StarJet modular solutions suite is a Project and Enterprise wide Dynamic Document Management system. Using StarJet, any organization from middle range to the most global company can: graphically and interactively create forms, and forms catalogues, perform highly flexible dynamic document production, while integrating diverse legacy systems data sources, tailoring documents according to dynamic data, or according to destination; in addition, it allows to manage media and printing resources, as well as document files redirection (email, fax, FTP
transfer, ASCII,XML…).
From the looks of this Xerox information, Surfray is alive and kicking. Information about Surfray is here on June 10, 2009. A query for the Xerox “XP Search” returned no hits on the Surfray Web site. I did get hits to a produce about Ontolica plus a news release dated April 20, 2006. Anyone know what’s shakin’ and bakin’ with this Danish firm?
Stephen Arnold, July 17, 2009
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We are incredibly busy reaching out to our over 1000 loyal customers to make sure they get value from using SurfRay products as well as welcoming new customers every month. And we are also very busy hiring people and developing new product releases, with a primary focus on Ontolica and MondoSearch. We look forward to making a series of major announcement this quarter. So it’s looking very good from our point of view.
As a bit of background: Effective March 2nd 2009 all assets and activities of SurfRay A/S were bought and taken over by a group of well resourced investors led by the company’s new CEO, Søren Pallesen and a Danish bank. This group of investors has formed a new company called SurfRay 2009 A/S which only activity is to continue development, sale and support of SurfRay’s products.
Neext week on Tuesday July 21st 2009 we will make a formal press release on the new management team (excerpt): “The Danish search engine factory SurfRay now has a new management team in place including a new Managing Director, and two new board members with extensive international experience from careers at Microsoft, Novell, IBM and Digital. Søren Pallesen joined the board in March when SurfRay 2009 A/S purchased the former company’s assets. Søren is 43 years old and has worked with a number of high-tech startups, as well as having a number of years of international experience including time at the analysis company Gartner and as a director of the software companies Baan and E.piphany. The two new board members are Ken Tomassen, Managing Director for Novell in Denmark, Finland, Norway and The Middle East, and Søren Steen Rasmussen, who has a long international career at Microsoft and is currently a Vækstfonden, one of Scandinavia largest venture companies, partner and a board member in a number of Danish growth companies.”
Stay tuned and feel free to contact me directly with any questions on spa@surfray.com
Best regards
Søren Pallesen, CEO and Owner
SurfRay 2009 A/S