http://www.dbms2.com/2005/11/21/is-oracle-losing-its-edge/ Choices in data management and analysis Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:41:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.dbms2.com/2005/11/21/is-oracle-losing-its-edge/#comment-183 Text Technologies»Blog Archive » The text technologies market 2: It’s actually in disarray Fri, 09 Dec 2005 22:22:19 +0000 http://www.dbms2.com/2005/11/21/is-oracle-losing-its-edge/#comment-183 [...] The text technologies market should be huge and thriving. Actually, however, it’s in disarray. Multiple generations of enterprise search vendors have floundered, with the Autonomy/Verity merger being basically a combination of the weak. The RDBMS vendors came up with decent hybrid tabular/text offerings, and almost nobody cared. (Admittedly, part of the reason for that is that the best offering was Oracle’s, and Oracle almost always screws up its ancillary businesses. Email searchability has been ridiculously bad since — well, since the invention of email. And speech technology has floundered for decades, with most of the survivors now rolled into the new version of Nuance. [...] [...] The text technologies market should be huge and thriving. Actually, however, it’s in disarray. Multiple generations of enterprise search vendors have floundered, with the Autonomy/Verity merger being basically a combination of the weak. The RDBMS vendors came up with decent hybrid tabular/text offerings, and almost nobody cared. (Admittedly, part of the reason for that is that the best offering was Oracle’s, and Oracle almost always screws up its ancillary businesses. Email searchability has been ridiculously bad since — well, since the invention of email. And speech technology has floundered for decades, with most of the survivors now rolled into the new version of Nuance. [...]

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