September 2007 Newsletter

THUNDERSTONE NEWS

September 2007 - Archive

Connectors Now Available for Thunderstone Search Appliance
Upcoming Features
Customer News
Happenings
Subscription/Unsubscription and Contacts

Connectors Now Available for Thunderstone Search Appliance

Thunderstone Software LLC has partnered with Persistent Systems, a leading custom software development company, to enable Thunderstones Search Appliance customers to use Persistents "Enterprise Content Search-enabling Connectors (ECSC)" in creating search-based applications across a broad array of enterprise content.

New products currently available include Thunderstone Search Appliance connectors for:

IBM Lotus Notes/Domino 5.x and above
Microsoft SharePoint 2007, 2003 (web services)
EMC Documentum eRoom 7.2 and above
EMC Documentum Content Server 5.3
Hummingbird Document Manager 5.1

Upcoming Features

The new Thunderstone Search Appliance with DB Wizard, scheduled to launch 21 September 2007, will simultaneously combine full-text searches with structured searches on up to 50 user-defined data fields. More of the built-in functionality always enjoyed by licensees of the full Thunderstone Texis development platform will now become immediately and conveniently available to mission-focused managers who prefer a plug-and-play search solution such as the Thunderstone Search Appliance.

Thunderstone Search Appliance with DB Wizard makes it easier for anyone to take fuller advantage of the powerful search capabilities made possible by the Texis technology that underlies the entire Thunderstone product line. Look for more details about DB Wizard in next month's newletter. Can't wait? Then, contact us at +1 216 820 2200 for more details.

Ecological Internet Portals Tap Thunderstone to Search 5 Million URLS

Nonprofits Conservation Websites Inform More than 35,000 Visitors a Day

Dennmark, Wisconsin-based Ecological Internet, Inc. recently renewed its license of Thunderstone's Webinator Web Index & Retrieval System to continue offering industry-leading search capabilities on all its environment conservation websites, including the highly popular http://www.ecoearth.info and http://www.climateark.org.

Ecological Internet, Inc. is a non-profit organization specializing in the use of the Internet to achieve conservation outcomes. As part of its mission it ... (Read More)

Happenings

This summer we hired Peter Thusat as Communication Director and CMO, appointing him specifically to enhance awareness of Thunderstone amongst key decision makers in targeted markets.

A 1982 graduate of the Defense Information School, Peter brings to Thunderstone more than 25 years of success as a business writer and recruitment/marketing consultant specializing in print/broadcast/Internet advertising, audio and video communications, media relations and sales channel development. His background includes considerable career accomplishments as a journalist, public affairs manager, curriculum designer, competitive intelligence analyst and executive director of a government policy think tank.

This summer we met with CEO Mark Hogan, Senior VP of Sales Jeffrey Kennedy and VP Tchad Moore of Government Sales Force, LLC to renew for another year Thunderstone's federal goverrment sales channel partnership agreement with GSF.

We again renewed our State Term Schedule (STS) for State of Ohio government sales of the Thunderstone Search Appliance.

Thanks to our new partner Dale Underwood at EchoQuote, LLC, visitors to the Thunderstone.com website may now request "self-service price quotes" on desired configurations of all Thunderstone Search Appliance products.

In August 2007 Thunderstone Software LLC conducted analyst briefings with Susan E. Aldrich (Patricia Seybold Group,) Matthew Brown (Forrester Research, Inc.,) Adriaan M. Bloem (CMSWatch.com,) Gerry Brown (Bloor Research, Inc.,) Whit Andrews (Gartner, Inc.) and Lynda W. Moulton & Mary Laplante (The Gilbane Group.)

Thunderstone's Mark Bacho (Business Development Director) and Peter Thusat (Communication Director) participated as exhibitors at the first annual Defense Intelligence Technology Conference & Expo: Synergy '07, August 27 - 29, in New Orleans.

Scott M. Fulton, III wrote an interesting article for BetaNews entitled "Xerox Reignites Interest in Semantic Networking as a Search Tool." He described at length an interview he conducted with former Thunderstone CEO Bart Richards for a book Fulton wrote in 1993. The upshot? Some of the search industry's "newest, most innovative, never-before-available, etc." features, upon closer observation, have already been provided by Thunderstone for many years (or, in some cases, decades.)

Technology Journalist Danny Bradbury interviewed Thunderstone's John Turnbull (President & CEO) for an upcoming National Post (Canada) article entitled "In Search of the Missing File."