Enterprise search: The target is moving

Lucid Imagination, an open-source enterprise search company, is looking to compete with established players like Autonomy, Microsoft’s Fast, and Endeca, but the target is already shifting.

Paula Rooney highlights Lucid CEO Eric Gries’ open-source enterprise search plan: be the Red Hat of enterprise search.

Lucid, which just emerged from stealth mode with US$6 million in funding, had already lined up some big customers like Hewlett-Packard and FedEx.

But let’s fast forward a bit. Like Red Hat, Lucid will start in one area and need to expand into new adjacent markets. Red Hat can offer a stack of software mainly fueled by its acquisition of JBoss and the middleware it provides. Lucid will have to follow a similar path. Why? The enterprise search market is already shifting.

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