Yesterday the guys from New Idea Engineering came with the rumour of a "large search vendor" buying in on a "partner" that has big business within the intelligence industry...
Today the Guardian releases the news that Autonomy has acquired Microlink.
MicroLink is a very valued Autonomy Partner that only 2 years ago was "partner of the year" because of their big revenues on selling IDOL licenses. MicroLink is the partner that implements Autonomy (IDOL) software within American intelligence organizations.
Big business for Autonomy and strategically important.
The question of the acquisition is: "Why, Why, Why?".
This move is not in line with the buying of Interwoven or Zantaz. Those companies / technologies added a complete suite of functionalities to penetrate other markets than just the enterprise search one.
Could it be that Autonomy wants to have more influence on the implementations with those important clients? Or could it be that MicroLink has some brilliant technological invention???
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