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At 10:12 AM 11/6/98 +0200, Fernando Cabral wrote: >Nevertheless, you've forgotten a very >important name: Dataware Technologies (http://www.dataware.com). > >Dataware grew from 0 to several million dollars in a few years >selling text-retrieval systems for CDs (about $40MB/year). Then >it bought BRS, with more than 2,000 data centers. Well, I just went and checked their financials, and while they actually showed a bit of profit I observe that their revenue, for this quarter against the same quarter last year, is declining (down from $5.4m to $4.8m) and the 3/4 results are down from $14.6m to $14.2m. This is the high-growth Internet/Software field? I repeat my claim that this is not a good busines to be in. >About two years ago Dataware launched EPMS, now renamed >Dataware II Publisher. This is a version of BRS entirely based >on SGML (it reads from about 300 different formats, converts >and stores as an SGML file, and allows you to do text retrieval >both in the traditional way as well as in a more SGML-like way. > >Of course, it can read and index directly SGML, XML and HTML. Can anyone else substantiate this? Last time I looked at BRS/search, it was a very traditional atomic-document thing; it had some fielded search, but it could only *find* documents. Obviously for XML you need to find elements. It would be great if BRS was really SGML/XML-savvy. >Talking about money, it is quite clear that IBM made a lotof money selling >STAIRS. Now it is musty but for more >than 20 years it reigned undisputed undisputed in the mainframe >kingdom. Here we agree. IBM made some serious money with STAIRS (I suspect mostly by selling mainframes to run it on). >So, I think the right conclusion is that in the low-end line of products >where quality/functionality is disputable and price is very low >(PC DOCs, Verity...) there is no real money. On the other hand, >vendors aiming the high-end market should not complain. I don't the evidence supports this view. >Own experience is that relational vendors are complete uncapableof providing a >good solution for text retrieval. The products >are usually very poor on the funcionality side and miserable on >the performance side. That's really interesting information. This is about the 5th time I've heard this; always anecdotal evidence, but it adds up. -Tim xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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