Microsoft officials are sharing a number of new tidbits concerning the firm;s enterprise-search roadmap at
the FASTForward ‘09 conference in Las Vegas this week.Unsurprisingly, Microsoft is announcing that it will integrate into SharePoint 14 the high-end enterprise lookup technology it acquired when it bought Norway-based Fast Search and Transfer last year. (Microsoft officials are still declining to provide a ship-date target for Office 14/SharePoint 14, but it;s still looking like either late 2009 or early 2010, testers have said.)Fast;s technology soups up the enterprise lookup capabilities that are part of SharePoint Server. Fast adds more sophisticated user-interface elements,
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Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 Activation Key, explained Jared Spataro, Director Enterprise Search.The forthcoming high-end enterprise lookup module will be known as Fast Lookup for SharePoint. Microsoft is planning to allow customers who already own SharePoint client-access licenses (CALs) to use those same CALs with the new Fast Search servers when they finally ship. (Users will still need to buy the server licenses.)Microsoft also is rolling out a “licensing path” for existing SharePoint Enterprise customers who are interested in having access to high-end lookup capabilities before SharePoint 14 ships. Via “ESP for SharePoint,” users can buy a license to the high-end lookup capabilities now and move to Fast Search for SharePoint once it ships.Microsoft also is planning to roll out a new product called “Fast Search for Internet Online business.” That product take the existing Fast ESP product and tune it for Web sites. Fast Search for Internet Company is slated to go to beta in the second half of 2009 and ship some time after that (Microsoft declined to release a ship target for it).Microsoft is not yet announcing pricing for any of its new enterprise-search options, organization officials said. (It will discuss ESP for SharePoint pricing one-on-one with existing customers, however, Spataro said.)Microsoft currently has more than 7,
Microsoft Office 2007 Pro Plus Serial Key,000 customers deploying the lookup server piece of SharePoint, Spataro said. There have been more than 100,
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Microsoft Office 2007 Professional Plus Activation, entry-level Lookup Server Express product, Spataro added.In the longer term, Microsoft;s goal is to make the Fast ESP technology the underlying kernel for all other enterprise products at Microsoft that incorporate search technology.