Open Text Search Technology to Power Patent Databases Solutions from Microsoft and Derwent
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WATERLOO, ONTARIO (Oct. 29) BUSINESS WIRE -Oct. 29, 1996--OPEN TEXT CORP.
(NASDAQ: OTEXF) Open Text Corporation of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada today
announced that a superset of the technology that is currently available
in its Livelink Search textual search and retrieval product will be a
key part of a new generation of powerful and flexible full patent
database products, to be developed by Microsoft Corporation and Derwent
Information.
Derwent Information will take the lead in incorporating Open Text's
search technology and the Microsoft(R) Windows NT operating system into
a powerful and flexible full patent database designed to meet the needs
of both novice and experienced patent searchers who want to use
client/server technology or the Internet for sharing patent information
within their organizations.
The first product from the agreement is expected to be commercially
available in the first quarter of 1997. Derwent Information, a division
of The Thomson Corporation providing international patent and scientific
information across the world for more than 40 years, is the industry
leader in the provision of international patent information.
"We expect the specific databases to be very large and composed of
structured languages, SGML and HTML, requiring an industrial strength
search engine capable of rapidly searching very large numbers of
documents in a structured manner, allowing users to search by title,
first paragraph, etc." said Tom Jenkins, President and CEO of Open Text
Corporation. "The search technology that will be included in these
products powers our Livelink Search product, which recently took top
honors in Computerworld's review of intranet-ready search engines. So
this is another significant OEM integration of our technology," added
Jenkins.
"Livelink Search forms a key component of our intranet application suite
- Livelink Intranet - which we are currently marketing, and we stand
ready to assist Derwent with their customers who choose a full-featured,
intranet-based patent database solution in future," Jenkins added.
The agreement marks the third announcement in as many weeks of wins by
Open Text where the firm's pre-eminent textual search and retrieval
technology has been chosen for use in database indexing and search
solutions, including ones to be offered by Medical Economics of Montvale,
New Jersey and the United States Government Printing Office in
Washington, DC. |
