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Thunderstone and Microlanguage Partner to Develop Homeland Security Solutions
Companies Partner to Develop Opportunities for Integrated Applications of Their Technologies
Cleveland, OH--September
20, 2002 -- Thunderstone Software (www.thunderstone.com) and Microlanguage™
(microlanguage.com) announced today that they have formed a partnership
under which they'll develop and market integrated solutions aimed
at homeland security and enterprise market applications.
Thunderstone
and Microlanguage are already working together on Raytheon's DoD
Joint Precision Strike Demonstration (JPSD) Program, developing
information retrieval technologies that deliver precise information
to the early-entry US warfighter and enable operators to make faster
decisions on the battlefield.
"We think
Microlanguage's Thematix technology is a good fit with our Texis
software," said John Turnbull, Thunderstone general manager.
"Users need a variety of ways to find information within large
collections of unstructured data. Sometimes word searching is appropriate,
and sometimes the ability to browse by concepts is needed. Microlanguage's
concept extraction automatically adds a sophisticated layer of metadata
that can then be browsed or searched using the Texis database features,
or combined with a full-text word or phrase search."
"Thunderstone
is a leading provider of information retrieval technology,"
said Robert Fritzinger, president and CEO of Microlanguage. "Our
products are highly compatible, both functionally and architecturally,
and it became very clear to us that our customers would be well
served by the integration of Thematix and Texis in information extraction
and knowledge management applications. It also became clear that
by working together, we could open doors to very important opportunities
within the homeland security community that would be more difficult
to access individually."
Microlanguage's
Thematix intelligent language processing technology improves the
precision and performance of knowledge management (KM) and information
extraction applications and the information services that portal
information providers deliver to Global 2000 enterprise customers
and government agencies. Microlanguage delivers Thematix in two
forms: an SDK that enables application developers and system integrators
to integrate Thematix with KM, CRM, and data visualization applications,
and embedded in custom applications that service unique end-user
requirements.
About
Thunderstone
Thunderstone Software LLC is the premier provider of text-search
technology integrated with SQL relational database functionality.
Applications include publishing, catalogs, classified advertising,
auctions, content management, and web-searching. Thunderstone is
a 20-year-old company whose products are used on thousands of web
sites worldwide. Major customers include eBay, QVC, About.com, ZDNet,
HotJobs, and many others
For more information,
or to view demonstrations of their technologies, visit Thunderstone
on the Web at www.thunderstone.com or call 216-820-2200.
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