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Oracle vs The Filing Cabinet

In this Business Week Online interview, Oracle: Competing with the Filing Cabinet, Larry Ellison says that Oracle's new Secure Enterprise Search will primarily compete against "the filing cabinet", giving companies a secure way for employees to access internal--and sensitive--corporate data directly through an "Internet-like" interface.

According to Ellison, Oracle Secure Enterprise Search eliminates the need for employees to print out and filing the information they require. It also offers access to much more than the web pages that Google or Yahoo! index, particularly databases (of course), but with security (hence the name) so that employees can only retrieve information to which they already have authorization.

What's it all got to do with open source? A big part of Google and Yahoo!'s success resulted from their ability to index web pages: data that conforms to a universally accepted and open standard for outputting data. Internal search engines like Oracle's as well as those from smaller vendors like Fast Search & Transfer and Autonomy, Inc. will succeed or fail based on their ability to search, interpret and index data in a wide range of formats. The more open standard formats are used, as opposed to proprietary formats whose use may be hobbled by legal restrictions, the more comprehensive internal search engines can be.

  Posted by Pete Loshin on May 16, 2006 8:42 AM |

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