Document (#14044)

Author

Hyams, P.

Title

Who's winning out in text retrieval?

Source

Monitor. 1996, no.182, S.9-11

Year

1996

Abstract

Reports on the current state of the text retrieval system market, noting the comparative sales of 4 companies producing text retrieval systems: Fulcrum (sales: 13,1 million dollars, net income: 2,65 million dollars); Dataware (sales: 10,5 million dollars, net income: 133.000 dollars loss); Verity (sales: 8,0 million dollars, net income: 112.000 dollars); Excalibur (sales: 5,77 million dollars, net income: 110.000 dollars). Concludes that Fulcrum looks to be best placed in the market

Theme

Bibliographische Software

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