Yahoo deal puts IBM, Microsoft in enterprise search pickle

04.08.2009
Due to a reporting error, the story "Yahoo deal puts IBM, Microsoft in enterprise search pickle," posted on Tuesday, didn't provide the full name of Microsoft's free entry-level enterprise search product.

The story has been fixed on the wire and paragraphs two and four now read:

Yahoo and IBM have offered since late 2006 a free, entry-level enterprise search product called , for which Yahoo provides a user interface component as well as Web search. That IBM-Yahoo product competes directly against the also-free Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express.

Although both are free, IBM OmniFind Yahoo Edition and Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express are strategically important because they are the entry-level options in each company's respective families of enterprise search wares.