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What a fascinating time for search companies. We saw 2 companies with huge accounting irregularities purchased by large enterprise software vendors. The story behind Fast's acquisition by Microsoft is just as crazy. It was called the "Enron of Norway" https://techcrunch.com/2008/07/03/did-the-enron-of-norway-pu..., and happened just 3 years prior!

Autonomy acquired Verity, they were the largest enterprise search company out there and HP had high hopes with their e-discovery solutions paired with storage. They didn't learn from Microsoft's mistake.




Isn't it ironic that IDOL (one of autonomys big products) is now being pitched to do fraud detection!




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