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Microsoft will be phasing out support for Unix and Linux platforms for its Quickly enterprise lookup products as of their next release (some time soon after 2010).Microsoft shared that facts, too as other news about its near- and longer-term lookup strategies as component of its most recent update to its enterprise-search roadmap, which it produced public on February 4. (Strangely, that weblog post about ending support for Linux and Unix from Fast CTO Bjorn Olstad is entitled “Innovation on Linux and Unix.”) Via a new post on the Microsoft Enterprise Search team weblog,Microsoft Office 2007 Enterprise, company officials detailed what customers can expect this year and beyond. From that publish: There are two standalone search items based on the technology Microsoft acquired in 2008 when it purchased Fast Lookup and Transfer for $1.23 billion. These goods are due out in the first half of calendar 2010. These are Quick Lookup for Internet Sites and Fast Search for Internal Applications. As it indicated a year ago, Microsoft also is going to be offering two versions of SharePoint for Internet Sites (Enterprise and Standard) in the first half of this year. The Enterprise version will include rights to use Quick Lookup outside the firewall.Quickly Search for Internet Sites includes the Fast Enterprise Search Platform (ESP) 5.3 core and includes content-transformation services, which are tools for processing structured and unstructured info, and Interaction Management Services (a new framework for building interactive user interfaces). This product will be licensable using a server-only model.Fast Search for Internal Applications includes the same ESP 5.3 lookup core which is licensable via a new Server/Client Access License (CAL) model.These two new Fast items will be the last release to include a serch core that runs on Linux and Unix. What does that mean for Fast users who have been running on those non-Microsoft operating systems,Microsoft Office Professional 2007, in terms of assistance? According to the weblog post: “Microsoft is committed to supporting ESP 5.3—our multi-OS lookup core—for 10 years as per our assistance policy. Non-Windows customers who want to remain on the ESP 5.3 core can take advantage of new Windows-only innovations by using a mixed-platform architecture. Microsoft is also introducing a Customer Upgrade Program to help customers evaluate hosted solutions and/or a Windows-based deployment and remains fully committed to interoperability with non-Windows systems on both the front- and back-end.”Microsoft also is discontinuing Quickly AdMomentum,Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Plus, “a search-based advertising solution,” company officials said. In other,Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010, non-enterprise-focused search news, Microsoft announced on Februrary 5 that it had extended its lookup partnership with Facebook, but that Facebook would be taking over its own advertising business,Microsoft Office 2010 Professional, a piece of which Microsoft had managed previously.