At the Autonomy media lunch held earlier today at the luxurious Campton Place in downtown San Francisco, I had a fairly long conversation with Debra Logan. Based in London, she's the Gartner vice president covering enterprise content management, knowledge management as well as e-discovery and much more but at this point I could not write no more! Anyway, among all the topics we discussed there were two subjects in particular that picked my curiosity:
1) Search is Oracle's next target

Oracle needs a cross-plateform search engine that will work with all the different applications they have acquired: Hyperion, JD Edwards PeopleSoft, Siebel... There's going to be serious consolidation in the search market

2) Google's enterprise search appliance is getting NO traction in the entreprise market

If I was Google I would hire an experience executive from IBM or another large Fortune 500 company that has experience in the entreprise space and lots of contacts. Relying on the sucess of their brand in the consumer market and a bunch of smart engineers just won't work in the enterprise space.