Eating your own dog food

I'm back in Austin, TX for another two days of Vignette training, this time for "Portal System Administrator" training.

Newer releases of Vignette's portal product (7.2) come with an OEM version of the Autonomy search engine. The instructor was not sure whether it was available for the prior release (7.1) or not. I decided to see if I could find out for sure by searching Vignette's website.

The first thing that jumped out at me was that Vignette's search results advertise that they are powered by Thunderstone, and not Autonomy.

And the Autonomy website doesn't appear to even have any search capabilities at all. Luckily there is always Google to the rescue.

I guess neither company has fully learned the virtues of eating your own dog food.

—Michael A. Cleverly
Thursday, June 02, 2005 at 17:04