RSSGoogle Updates Search Appliance
By the Betanews Staff | Published September 19, 2006, 2:08 PM
Google on Tuesday updated its Search Appliance hardware for businesses, expanding capacity to up to 30 million documents and adding a number of new features. Users can now specify date ranges in their searches, as well as set price and number ranges.
The device doesn't come cheap, however; the base price for indexing 500,000 documents is $30,000, with larger models reaching six figures. Google has also added 10 more languages to the Search Appliance, which now supports 16 in total. Current customers with the GB-5005 and GB-8008 can download the update from Google's support site.
that is true, the calender, writely etc all need to be hosted in house before corps will use them. That would be neat though. Although isn't that alot like how lotus notes works? I wouldn't doubt it would be alot cheaper then paying per license for office and having exchange running. I would love to see the revenue loss to ms and going to google.
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They really need to create mid-range server products housing their apps and search functionality so that small businessess and corps can utilize this tech to make the Office/OS wars obsolete.
With Google's document, spreadsheet, mail and calendar apps all hosted in-house, accessible from around the globe through the companies web-portal, the need for a specific OS, or communication/office suite disappears.
They gotta bring down that $30,000 price tag first, though. Then work on functionality.
...then we'll talk.
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There's also the Google Mini, which is quite cheap at $2,000:
http://www.google.com/enterprise/mini/
However, you are limited with linking it to a database and by the number of documents. Starts at 50k, although you can upgrade it to handle more.
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Heh... and they haven't even begun to add in the rest of their apps yet.
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No business, at least, none that has privacy concerns, will be using the other apps until they can be hosted in-house. :)
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