I’ve read a post on this in the Enterprise Search LinkedIn group, and so far no comments, but I wanted to confirm this via my own research. It seems that Gartner believes that the Enterprise Search market is maturing to a three (Microsoft with FAST for SharePoint 2010, Autonomy& Endeca), but also stating that this market is vulnerable to the emerging Open Source Enterprise Search Platforms.
Market Shift: Demand for Simple Enterprise Search Prompts Change From Magic Quadrant to MarketScope
(25 June 2010 Whit Andrews) A very significant number of government and commercial enterprises now select very simple products for search projects. Thanks to their simple but sophisticated offerings, Google, Microsoft and Autonomy have come to dominate the selection choices of most organizations picking search products.
Information Access Technology – Magic Quadrant 09-02-2009 Retired
Enterprise Search - MarketScope Upcoming Q3 10
http://www.gartner.com/it/products/mq/mq_ms.jsp
So, sometime soon when the MarketScope report is officially released we will see what Gartner has to say about the current market status.
Lynda Moulton also mentions a new report due out soon relative to adding semantic knowledge to Enterprise Search – “A soon to-be released study featuring some of noteworthy applications reveals just how much is being done in enterprises for specific business purposes.”
I look forward to reading both reports!