Microsoft Phasing Out FAST Search For Linux, Unix 146
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from the going-away dept.
from the going-away dept.
viralMeme writes "Microsoft plans to begin phasing out Unix and Linux platform support for its FAST enterprise search products, as of its next release. According to a Thursday blog post from Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Bjørn Olstad, 'We’ve continued to sell, support, and update the Linux and UNIX versions of FAST ESP, and we’ve designed the next wave of FAST products (scheduled for release in the first half of calendar year 2010) to include a cross-platform search core that has been extended to take advantage of web services and support mixed-platform deployment models. With our 2010 products scheduled for release in a few months, we’ve just started to plan for our next wave of products. As a part of that planning process, we have decided that in order to deliver more innovation per release in the future, the 2010 products will be the last to include a search core that runs on Linux and UNIX. Many of our customers run FAST ESP on Linux and UNIX today, and we recognize that our future focus on Windows means change. To ease the transition, we’re investing in interoperability between Windows and other operating systems, reaffirming our commitment to 10 years of support for our non-Windows products, and taking concrete steps to help customers plan for the future.'"
But. (Score:4, Funny)
Your lack of faith is disturbing.
.... gorrrgling sound of Justniz grabbing to this throat.....
Oh no!! (Score:5, Funny)
Oh no!! How will the Linux and Unix communities cope?!?
Who gives a shit?!?!
What kind of music do we like? (Score:4, Funny)
Both kinds.
Country AND Western.
Re:But. (Score:2, Funny)
Invention of Lock-in (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Thats why theres lucene (Score:5, Funny)
That's clearly nonsense. Which of these programs is named after the very concept of high velocity?
BTW: What does FAST do, anyway?
Re:cool (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Fear and Opportunity (Score:1, Funny)
And in other news they're starting to get their butt kicked out of the entertainment industry [sourceforge.net] too.