Microsoft acquiring Fast Search & Transfer

Microsoft acquiring Fast Search & Transfer

Software giant Microsoft has announced that they are acquiring Fast Search & Transfer.

The company added that CEO of Fast, John Markus Lervik would now lead their effort to create a single enterprise search platform.

This platform would be powered by their existing technologies like Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 search, and Fast ESP.

Lervik would become the Microsoft’s corporate VP of enterprise search. He would report directly to Jeff Teper, Microsoft’s VP of its Office Business Platform.

Fast would now operate as a Microsoft subsidiary. They would continue to operate from Norway.

Microsoft added: “With our companies combined, we’ll be uniquely able to offer customers what they’ve been telling us they want most — a strategy for meeting everything from their basic to most complex enterprise search needs”