IBM upgrades enterprise-level product
27 April 2004
IBM has announced that it is planning the release of its upgraded enterprise-level search engine, codenamed 'Masala'.
The new version of the DB2 Information Integrator software will allow corporate employees to retrieve information from databases, applications and the web at the same time and subsequent improvements will include a data-mining component. An estimated 1,300 IBM customers currently use the first version of Information Integrator.
IBM has released a beta version of Masala's natural-language search component to its customers for field testing, and will release a full beta in the first part of May. Commercial availability will begin in the second half of the year.
Searches that span multiple locations, or distributed searches, are becoming more popular within the search industry. Google has already introduced network hardware that serves as an enterprise-level search tool that allows users to search the companies intranet and its public website, while Microsoft is working on its own distributed search plan with Longhorn, a new release of its SQL Server database and its own internet search service. BEA Systems.
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