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As the systems architect in the Knowledge Management department at my company, I can safely say Google has a looooooong way to go before they can even think of competing with Autonomy. We use Autonomy as part of our KM infrastructure, but as this article states, KM is a series of blurred lines that are subject to the whims of every individual department head... even the CIO, who mercilessly undermines KM efforts with his politricks.

While Autonomy may have a comfortable lead, it is one of the least stable enterprise servers I have ever worked with. It fails inexplicably, cannot load if there is insufficient memory, doesn't allow the administrator to configure resource consumption, archival procedures or many automation features standard in enterprise environments.

I find Autonomy to be a shameful investment on the part of many companies simply to get at its technology, which, while patented, will be available to the general programming public for deployment into their search technologies midway through the next decade. That patent can even be negated on the fact that it is based on Bayesian inference, and common sense. Want to know how pathetic it is? Simple: A concept is a grouping of words in proximity to each other. Autonomy searches on concepts, instead of textual matching. And this is patented. WHAT A JOKE.

Anyhow, I'm here to state it flatly: Autonomy doesn't have THAT much of a lead over Google, and frankly, I'd rather have a stable platform with less features.

Mind you, Autonomy support doesn't even fit the bill: the answer to almost all problems is to put all files into one directory so they can run properly, or to grant widereaching permissions to the processes, or my favorite: upgrade to maintain functionality that failed today... but was working last night.

Autonomy and Google have a long way to go in their respective arenas, but if I was a bettin' man, I'd say that Google will overcome Autonomy.

Posted by: kckn4fun   Posted on: 03/06/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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