This combination may sound strange for us, but it is true. Yahoo and IBM released IBM OmniFind Yahoo Edition business search software for Linux and Windows servers.
"We think it's a very complementary relationship," says Marc Andrews, program director for information management strategies at IBM. "Yahoo brings that consumer view of the market and a view into small businesses, and also the awareness around Web search and easy search for the average user."
The software's downloadable version is available at Yahoo for free.
"We actually believe that search is really only the start of the value proposition for enterprises," says Andrews.
Yahoo's aim is to tell business people more about its services.
"We haven't been in the enterprise business space per se," says Eckart Walther, vice president of product management for Yahoo! Search, "but our products are used in the enterprise." He points to Yahoo Messenger, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Small Business, and Yahoo HotJobs as examples.
The IBM-Yahoo software supports up to 500,000 documents per server, the same number as the Google Search Appliance. IBM-Yahoo software has a symbolic cost for ownership a few hundred dollars, but it is still much more cheaper then Google's search software which costs $1,995 for a Google Mini and $30,000 for a Google Search Appliance.
"I think this announcement is going to create headaches for Google Enterprise," says US market research group Forrester. "Their Mini line of products has been very successful for them. Suddenly here's a downloadable search tool that has the capacity of the Google Search Appliance being given away for free."
IBM OmniFind Yahoo Edition is open source software and is based on the open source Lucene indexing library. Yahoo announces that it will go on working and investing in open source software.
By Ruzan Harutyunyan for HULIQ
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