Not so FAST…

Microsoft have announced a roadmap for their enterprise search products: none of this is very surprising. How successful they’ll be at integrating the FAST technology (which comes from a Linux background) with Sharepoint, .NET etc. remains to be seen. More coverage here.

They’ve also released an ‘Express’ (i.e., free but feature limited) version of Microsoft Search Server. We’re going to take a deeper look at this soon.