Microsoft plans to begin phasing out Unix and Linux platform support for its FAST enterprise search products, as of its next release.
Enterprise search remains a lucrative, if oddly fractured market. According to analyst firm Gartner, in 2008, software revenue (new licenses and maintenance revenue) in the enterprise search market totaled $1.1 billion worldwide. The firm also forecast that revenue would rise to $1.9 billion by 2013, with a compound annual growth rate of 11.7 percent. Currently, the market is dominated by Microsoft and Autonomy, though recently, the Apache Lucene project (commercialized by Lucid Imagination) has made inroads into the enterprise, as has Google's search appliance.
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Enterprise search remains a lucrative, if oddly fractured market. According to analyst firm Gartner, in 2008, software revenue (new licenses and maintenance revenue) in the enterprise search market totaled $1.1 billion worldwide. The firm also forecast that revenue would rise to $1.9 billion by 2013, with a compound annual growth rate of 11.7 percent. Currently, the market is dominated by Microsoft and Autonomy, though recently, the Apache Lucene project (commercialized by Lucid Imagination) has made inroads into the enterprise, as has Google's search appliance.
Full Story: Microsoft dropping FAST search for Linux, Unix - CNET
