I'm not going to comment on the various financial aspects of the recent news about HP's write-down of the value of its Autonomy acquisition - others are able to do this far better than me - but I would urge anyone interested to re-read the documents Oracle released earlier this year. However, I am going to write about the IDOL technology itself (I'd ...Continue reading
It's been an interesting and busy twelve months here at Flax - we've worked on some fantastic customer projects, spoken at conferences at home and Continue reading
We dropped in to the Online 2010 event at Olympia this week, and were immediately struck by how quiet the event was: yes, there's been some terrible weather recently in the UK but there were fewer stalls than last year, a smaller exhibition space and very few exhibitors in the enterprise search space - no Autonomy, Google, Vivisimo or Endeca for example. Unlike previous years there was no dedicated 'search' area on the exhibition floor, and we did see a few unmanned stands from mid afternoon. Is...Continue reading
Those of you who read my slides from Search Solutions 2010 will have spotted a case study on our work for the Financial Times, one of the world’s leading business news organisations. When the Financial Times decided to bring their digital press cuttings in-house in summer 2010, they asked us to build a powerful 'search server' that they could easily integrate into their existing product offerings. We built an indexer...Continue reading
