[Sigia-l] RE: Google Appliance

[Skot Nelson]

You know, I love this dialog:

On Nov-2-2005, at 1:31 PM, Gabriel wrote:

> Thunderstone, founded in 1981, received its first big assignment in  
> 1986
> when it was chosen by NASA to index all of the Challenger debris  
> resulting
> from the Challenger Disaster.
>>> I've never heard of Thunderstone before.  Anyone else have  
>>> experience
>>> with their products?
>>>
>>> While they may have been in the biz for 21 years, their site doesn't
>>> instill much trust.  The site's design says >> "low budget", "low  
>>> quality
>>> support" and reminds me of lots of small shareware company  
>>> sites.  Not what
>>> I equate >> with a viable "enterprise search vendor."

because it says a great deal about the change in how decisions are  
made since the launch of the commercial Internet.

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Scott Nelson
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