[gadders]

I have no comment on Autonomy's finances. We did however evaluate it's product vs Google's search appliance.

The Google Appliance we pretty much plugged in and let it do it's thing. After a few days it was giving excellent results on our massive (80,000 people) company intranet.

The Autonomy server had to be constantly tweaked and fiddled with to even get it near to the relevance of the results.

Unfortunately, Autonomy had flogged a loads of licenses to another part of the business for peanuts, so we had to go with their inferior product.