The Wheel of Search: Leidos
September 3, 2016
I know that most experts in search and content processing do not know too much about Teratext, the search system once owned by SAIC, a services firm. Teratext is described in this free profile. I read “Leidos Closes Lockheed Merger.” What I wanted to point out is that Lockheed Martin is “back into” the search business. The company sold its AeroText system, which is similar in some ways to to Leidos TeraText, to Rocket Software. With this deal, one services firm has moved search from its core business to a subsidiary and then sold that entity (Leidos) to a major US government contractor. Now Lockheed Martin is back in the search and content processing business. I find this brokering of search and content systems interesting because the technology is becoming dated and the systems require substantial professional support to install, optimize, operate, maintain, and extend. The wheel of search keeps on turning on axels of decades old technology. There is money in search, particularly some massive, complex systems.
Stephen E Arnold, September 3, 2016
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