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Microsoft Gives Away Search Server 2008
Microsoft said that it's giving away Search Server 2008 Express in release candidate form to anyone who wants it, just by downloading it directly from Microsoft's Web site.
- By Michael Domingo
- November 06, 2007
Microsoft said that it's giving away Search Server 2008 Express in release candidate form to anyone who
wants it, just by downloading directly from Microsoft's Web site
here.
The Express version is the sibling to the enterprise-strength version of Microsoft
Search Server 2008, which the company debuted at an enterprise search conference
in San Jose, Calif.
According to a press release issued by the company, Search Server 2008 Express packages up the enterprise search capabilities found in SharePoint Server 2007. With it come free connectors for searching among data and documents in EMC's Documentum and IBM's Filenet document management systems. Microsoft says that it's working with other partners to provide more connectors and federated search features that support the OpenSearch standard.
Jonathan Kauffman, general manager of Microsoft's Enterprise Search group,
points to several other key features of the Express version in his blog:
"relevancy tuning, security-trimmed search results and great out-of-the-box
administration and reporting." What's also noteworthy, says Kauffman, is that
Express also imposes no limits to the number of documents that can be indexed
and searched.
Microsoft Search Server 2008 itself will be available to the general public in January, and only to Microsoft's volume licensing program customers; that version, according to the press release, adds enterprise deployment and scalability options.
To read more about Search Server 2008 and Search Server 2008 Express, click here. To read about partners developing federated search connectors that will work with Search Server, go here.
About the Author
Michael Domingo has held several positions at 1105 Media, and is currently the editor in chief of Visual Studio Magazine.