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Operating Systems

Server - System Requirements Client -  System Requirements Searchable File Types
  80/20 Verity

Verity  Purchased 80/20. Verity was then  purchased by Autonomy.

See Autonomy IDOL below.

N/A Demo N/A Windows 2000, XP Processor: Intel Pentium III or compatible processor; 450 megahertz (MHz) or higher
 

Operating System: Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional with Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.0; Microsoft Windows XP Professional
 

Memory: 128 megabytes (MB) of RAM required on Windows 2000 systems; 256 MB required on Windows XP systems
 

Hard Disk: 40 MB of available hard disk space


Other Devices:
  o Network adapter card
  o HTML 2.0 compatible web browser

 

 

 

Processor: Intel Pentium II or compatible processor; 450 MHz or higher
 

Operating System: Microsoft Windows NT version 4.0 with Service Pack 6a (SP6a); Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional; Microsoft Windows XP Professional
 

Memory: 64 MB of RAM
 

Hard Disk: 20 MB of available hard disk space
 

Other Devices:
  o Network adapter card
  o HTML 2.0 compatible web browser

Additional items or services required:

Internet Explorer 4.01 SP2 or later is required to use browser-accessible features such as in-place document viewing, HTML frames, Outlook Web Access and Microsoft Exchange Public Folder access without Outlook Web Access

 

Microsoft Office, Microsoft Exchange Email, Lotus Notes
  Autonomy IDOL   Demo N/A Windows N/A N/A Microsoft Office, Lotus Notes, SQL, Exchange, PDF, HTML, Text
 

Coveo Desktop Search

 

1.5

Demo

Free Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP   N/A Microsoft Word documents (versions: 6.0, 95 (7.0), 97, 98 (Mac), 2000, XP, 2003)
Microsoft Excel spreadsheets (versions: 5.0, 95 (7.0), 97, 2000, XP, 2003)
Microsoft PowerPoint presentations (versions: 97, 2000, XP, 2003)
Adobe PDF documents (versions: 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4)
WordPerfect documents (versions: 5.0, 5.1 (not Far East versions), 5.2 (not Far East versions), 5.x (Windows), 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
Microsoft Rich Text documents

HTML/XHTML documents
XML documents

ASCII documents
ANSI documents
UCS2 Unicode documents (with some limitations)
UTF8 documents (with some limitations)
 
  dtSearch Network 7.1 Demo N/A Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT 4 or later, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows 2003 Serve 256 K RAM
30 MB HD
  Word processor, database, spreadsheet, presentation, ZIP, XML, PDF, HTML, Unicode files, email archives (including attachments), and more. Includes over two dozen indexed, unindexed, fielded and full-text search options. Highlights hits in all retrieved files; for HTML, XML and PDF, also displaying embedded links and images
  Fast PSP   Demo N/A Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT 4 or later, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows 2003 Serve     Office Doc.PDF, Picture Files
 

Google Enterprise Desktop

4.5

Demo

Free

$20,000 Optional Premium Support includes deployment tool for 2 years

Vista, Windows XP and Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 and above   128MB of RAM and a 400MHz Pentium processor

500MB of space available on your hard disk.


 
Microsoft
Word
Excel
Power point
Web Pages
Text
AOL IM                                                     PDF files
Multimedia files, including audio (MP3, WMA, WAVand more), images (JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP and more), and videos (AVI, MPG, WMV, and more), by meta-tag. Third Party Plug ins add more file types

Lotus Notes
 

  ISYS:desktop 8.0

Demo

$1000 for networked version and $100 per seat Windows 95/98/ME and Windows NT/2000/XP 140 MB HDD, 256MB Ram 140 MB HDD, 256MB Ram 200 + File types
MS Office products, e-mail, attachments, PDF, HTML, ZIP files, databases and native format spreadsheets
Act!
ADO
Adobe Acrobat (PDF)
ANSI Text
ASCII Source Code
ASCII Text
ASCII Transcript
AutoCAD
BDE
Btrieve
Comma Separated Values (CSV)
CompuServe E-mail
DBase (III, IV)
DisplayWrite (4, 5)
Eudora
Excel (2.0 - 2000, XP, 2003)
Flash (4-6)
FoxPro (2, 2.5)
Framework 3
FTP
Haansoft Hangul
HTML Raw Codes
HTML Text Only
HTTP
IBM DCA/RFT
IBM FFT
Informix
Interbase
Lotus 123 (3, 4, 5 96, 97)
Lotus Ami Pro
Lotus cc:Mail
Lotus Manuscript
Lotus Notes
Lotus WordPro (2.0, 3.0, 97)
MASS - 11PC
Microsoft Access (2000, XP, 2003)
Microsoft Binders
Microsoft EML
Microsoft Excel (2.0 - 5.0, 95, 97, 2000, XP, 2003)
Microsoft Exchange
Microsoft HTML Help (CHM)
Microsoft MHT
Microsoft MSG
Microsoft Outlook (97, 98, 2000, XP, 2003)
Microsoft Outlook Express (4, 5, 6)
Microsoft PowerPoint (4.0, 95, 97, 2000, XP, 2003)
Microsoft Public Folders
Microsoft RTF (Rich Text Format)
Microsoft Word DOS (2.0 - 5.5)
Microsoft Word (2.0-6.0, 95, 97, 2000, XP, 2003)
Microsoft Wordpad
Microsoft Works (1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0)
MP3
MS Internet Mail
MS SQL Server
Multimate (3.0, 4.0, 5.0, Advantage)
My SQL
Netscape Mail
Open Access II
Oracle 8
Paradox (3.x, 4.x, 2000)
Professional Write
Public MAPI
Q & A Write
Revelation
SGML Text Only
Spreadsheets
SQL
Sybase
Uniplex
Ventura publisher mark-up
VIM
Wang IWP
Wang WP PLUS
Windows Write (1.0, 2.0, 3.0)
Word Perfect 4.2, 5.0, 6, 7, 8, 10, 2000)
Wordstar (3, 4, 5, 6, 2000)
XML
XYWrite
ZIP files
 
 

G10 Software AG

Enterprise Desktop Search

 

3.0 Demo Free or $80.00 Windows XP,  2000 and Windows 2003 Server   400 MHz processor
128 MB RAM Requires Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1
Microsoft Office, Outlook and Outlook ex-press, Acrobat Reader, TXT, RTF, HTML, MP3, GIF and bmp. Exchange Server, and Shared Networked Drives.
Microsoft

Desktop Search

Included in Vista

Various products Compare Products Free or for Fee Windows 95/98/ME and Windows NT/2000/XP

Included in Vista

    Various
X1

Enterprise     Client

Enterprise Platform

v6 Demo Free Enterprise Client

Enterprise Platform price available

Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP

Windows Server 2003 SP1 with IIS 6 and Active Directory
Windows Server 2000 SP4 with IIS 5 and Active Directory
ASP.NET 2.0

OS
Windows Server 2003 SP1 with IIS 6 and Active Directory
Windows Server 2000 SP4 with IIS 5 and Active Directory
ASP.NET 2.0
CPU
2.0 GHz minimum, Dual 3.0 GHz or better recommended
Memory
2 GB RAM minimum, 3 GB RAM recommended*
Disk
20 GB free hard disk required
2 or more disks per server recommended
• 256 MB RAM required
• 512 MB RAM recommended
• 50 MB free hard disk space

1 gig free space recommended

ASCII Text 7 & 8 bit
• ANSI Text 7 & 8 bit
• HTML Versions through 3.0
• IBM Revisable Form Text All versions
• IBM FFT All versions
• Microsoft Rich Text Format All versions
• Text Mail (MIME) No specific version
• Unicode Text All versions
• WML Compatible with WML specification 5.2

DEC WPS Plus (DX) Versions through 4.0
• DEC WPS Plus (WPL) Versions through 4.1
• DisplayWrite 2 & 3 (TXT) All versions
• DisplayWrite 4 & 5 Versions through Release 2.0
• Enable Versions 3.0, 4.0 and 4.5
• First Choice Versions through 3.0
• Framework Version 3.0
• IBM Writing Assistant Version 1.01
• Lotus Manuscript Version 2.0
• MASS11 Versions through 8.0
• Microsoft Word Versions through 6.0
• Microsoft Works Versions through 2.0
• MultiMate Versions through 4.0
• Navy DIF All versions
• Nota Bene Version 3.0
• Novell WordPerfect Versions through 6.1
• Office Writer Versions 4.0 - 6.0
• PC-File Letter Versions through 5.0
• PC-File+ Letter Versions through 3.0
• PFS:Write Versions A, B and C
• Professional Write Versions through 2.1
• Q&A Version 2.0
• Samna Word Versions through Samna Word IV+
• SmartWare II Version 1.02
• Sprint Versions through 1.0
• Total Word Version 1.2
• Volkswriter 3 & 4 Versions through 1.0
• Wang PC (IWP) Versions through 2.6
• WordMARC Versions through Composer Plus
• WordStar Versions through 7.0
• WordStar 2000 Versions through 3.0
• XyWrite Versions through III Plus

Adobe FrameMaker (MIF) Version 6.0, text only
• Corel/Novell WordPerfect for Windows Versions through 11
• Hangul Version 97
• JustSystems Ichitaro Versions 5.0, 6.0, 8.0, 9.0, and 10.0
• JustWrite Versions through 3.0
• Legacy Versions through 1.1
• Lotus AMI/AMI Professional Versions through 3.1
• Lotus Word Pro Versions 96 -- Millennium Edition 9.6 (text only)
• Microsoft Works for Windows Versions through 4.0
• Microsoft Windows Write Versions through 3.0
• Microsoft Word for Windows Versions through 2003
• Microsoft WordPad All versions
• Novell Perfect Works Version 2.0
• Professional Write Plus Version 1.0
• Q&A Write for Windows Version 3.0
• StarOffice Write for Windows and UNIX Version 5.2 (text only)
• WordStar for Windows Version 1.0

MacWrite II Version 1.1
• Microsoft Word for Mac Versions 3.0 -- 4.0, 98, 2001
• Microsoft Works for Mac Versions through 2.0
• Novell WordPerfect Versions 1.02 through 3.0

Enable Versions 3.0, 4.0 and 4.5
• First Choice Versions through 3.0
• Framework Version 3.0
• Lotus 1-2-3 (DOS & Windows) Versions through 5.0
• Lotus 1-2-3 (OS/2) Versions through 2.0
• Lotus 1-2-3 Charts (DOS & Windows) Versions through 5.0
• Lotus 1-2-3 for SmartSuite Versions 97 - Millennium Edition 9.6
• Lotus Symphony Versions 1.0,1.1 and 2.0
• Microsoft Excel Charts Versions 2.x - 7.0
• Microsoft Excel Macintosh Versions 3.0 - 98
• Microsoft Excel Windows Versions 2.2 through 2002
• Microsoft Multiplan Version 4.0
• Microsoft Works (DOS) Versions through 2.0
• Microsoft Works (Mac) Versions through 2.0
• Microsoft Works for Windows Versions through 4.0
• Mosaic Twin Version 2.5
• Novell Perfect Works Version 2.0
• PFS:Professional Plan Version 1.0
• Quattro Pro for DOS Versions through 5.0
• Quattro Pro for Windows Versions through 10
• SmartWare II Version 1.02
• StarOffice Calc for Windows and UNIX Version 5.2 (text only)
• SuperCalc 5 Version 4.0
• VP Planner 3D Version 1.0
dBASE Versions through 5.0
• DataEase Version 4.x
• dBXL Version 1.3
• Enable Versions 3.0, 4.0 and 4.5
• First Choice Versions through 3.0
• FoxBase Version 2.1
• Framework Version 3.0
• Microsoft Works (DOS) Versions through 2.0
• Microsoft Works (Mac) Versions through 2.0
• Microsoft Works for Windows Versions through 4.0
• Paradox (DOS) Versions through 4.0
• Paradox (Windows) Versions through 1.0
• Personal R:BASE Version 1.0
• R:BASE 5000 Versions through 3.1
• R:BASE System V Version 1.0
• Reflex Version 2.0
• Q & A Versions through 2.0
• SmartWare II Version 1.02

Corel/Novell Presentations Versions through 11
• Harvard Graphics for DOS Versions 2.x & 3.x
• Harvard Graphics for Windows Windows versions
• Freelance for Windows Versions through Millennium Edition 9.6
• Freelance for OS/2 Versions through 2.0
• Microsoft PowerPoint for Macintosh Versions 4.0 through 2001
• Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows Versions 3.0 through 2003
• StarOffice Impress for Windows and UNIX Version 5.2 (text only)

Adobe FrameMaker Graphics (FMV) Version 5.0
• Adobe Illustrator Versions through 9.0
• Adobe Photoshop (PSD) Version 4.0
• Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) Versions through 6.0
• AmiDraw (SDW) Ami Draw
• AutoCAD (DXF and DWG) V.2.5 - 2.6, 9.0 - 14.0, 2000i - 2002
• Binary Group 3 Fax All versions
• Bitmap (BMP, RLE, ICO, CUR, OS/2, DIB & WARP) Windows
• CALS Raster (GP4) Type I and Type II
• Corel Draw (CDR) Versions 6.0 - 8.0
• Corel Draw (CDR with TIFF header) Versions 2.0 - 9.0
• Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM) ANSI, CALS NIST version 3.0
• Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) TIFF header only
• GEM Paint (IMG) No specific version
• Graphics Environment Mgr. (GEM) Bitmap & vector
• Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) No specific version
• Hewlett Packard Graphics Language (HPGL) Version 2
• IBM Graphics Data Format (GDF) Version 1.0
• IBM Picture Interchange Format (PIF) Version 1.0
• Initial Graphics Exchange Spec (IGES) Version 5.1
• JFIF (JPEG not in TIFF format) All versions
• JPEG (including EXIF) No specific version
• Kodak Flash Pix (FPX) No specific version
• Kodak Photo CD (PCD) Version 1.0
• Lotus PIC No specific version
• Lotus Snapshot All versions
• Macintosh PICT1 & PICT2 Bitmap only
• MacPaint (PNTG) No specific version
• Micrografx Draw (DRW) Versions through 4.0
• Micrografx Designer (DRW) Versions through 3.1
• Micrografx Designer (DSF) Windows 95, version 6.0
• Novell PerfectWorks (Draw) Version 2.0
• OS/2 Bitmap All versions
• OS/2 PM Metafile (MET) Version 3.0
• Paint Shop Pro (PSP) Versions 5.0 and 5.01
• Paint Shop Pro 6 (PSP) Win32 only
• PC Paintbrush (PCX and DCX) No specific version
• Portable Bitmap (PBM) All versions
• Portable Graymap (PGM) No specific version
• Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Version 1.0
• Portable Pixmap (PPM) No specific version
• Progressive JPEG No specific version
• Sun Raster (SRS) No specific version
• TIFF Versions through 6
• TIFF CCITT Group 3 & 4 Versions through 6
• Truevision TGA (TARGA) Version 2
• Visio (preview) Version 4
• Visio Versions 5, 2000 and 2002
• WBMP No specific version
• Windows Enhanced Metafile (EMF) No specific version
• Windows Metafile (WMF) No specific version
• WordPerfect Graphics (WPG & WPG2) Versions through 2.0
• X-Windows Bitmap (XBM) x10 compatible
• X-Windows Dump (XDM) x10 compatible
• X-Windows Pixmap (XPM) x10 compatible


GZIP No specific version
• LZA Self Extracting Compress No specific version
• LZH Compress No specific version
• Microsoft Binder Versions 7.0-97
• MIME Text Mail No specific version
• UUEncode No specific version
• UNIX Compress No specific version
• UNIX TAR No specific version
• ZIP PKWARE versions through 2.04g

Executable (EXE, DLL) No specific version
• Executable for Windows NT No specific version
• Microsoft Outlook Message (MSG) Text only
• Microsoft Project Version 98, 2000, and 2002 (text only)
• vCard Version 2.1

Lotus Notes

Network Drives

Content Connectors

Microsoftฎ Exchange
Interwoven WorkSite™
IBM OmniFind™ and Content Edition

 

  Vendor Email Audio Video Pictures Browsers Supported Deskbar Content Management Integration Enterprise Search Integration Security Languages Supported Deployment Tools Search Network Drives Unique Feature
  80 20 Verity(Now IDOL see below)

 

Outlook, Exchange, Lotus Notes N/A N/A N/A Microsoft IE N/A Yes Yes Yes English N/A Yes  
  Autonomy IDOL Outlook Yes Yes Yes Microsoft IE   Yes Yes Yes English N/a Yes Implicit Query

Active Folders

 

Coveo Desktop Search

Outlook Express 5.x/6.x and Outlook 2000/XP/2003  Mozilla Thunderbird and Eudora  Yes Yes Yes Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla and Netscape 6x./7.x/8 browsers Yes N/A Yes Yes English  French

 

N/A Yes  
  dtSearch Network Outlook, Exchange Yes Yes Yes       Yes Yes English, French, German, any unicode supported alphabet Yes Yes Can index over 1 TeraByte of data in over 100 indexes each
  Google Enterprise  Desktop Outlook Outlook Express Netscape Mail, Mozilla Mail and Thunderbird Yes Yes Yes Microsoft Internet Explorer Netscape 7+, Mozilla and Firefox Yes Enterprise via Search Appliance Yes, With Google Search Appliance or Google Mini  Toolbar or Deskbar Enterprise English Chinese  Korean   No MSI Installer

Encrypt all user data and search index files

  ISYS:desktop Compuserve, Eudora, Lotus cc:mail, Microsoft Internet Mail,

Microsoft Outlook (97, 98, 2000, XP, 2003, 2007)
Outlook Express (4, 5, 6)

Microsoft Personal Folders, PST

Netscape Mail, Sendmail mbox

Thunderbird 1 and 1.5

VIM


 
Yes Yes Yes Microsoft Internet Explorer Yes Yes Yes Yes 60 + Languages

Afrikaans Albanian Arabic Armenian Bahasa Bengali Bulgarian Cyrillic Russian Danish Dutch English Estonian Faeroese Farsi Finnish French German Greek Hebrew Indonesian Italian Japanese
Kazak
Korean
Kyrgyz
Latvian
Lithuanian
Malay
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese
Serbian
Simplified Chinese
Spanish
Swedish
Tamil
Thai
Traditional Chinese
Turkish
Vietnamese
Welsh
 

Yes Yes entity detection, menu-assisted query, automatic categorization, results grouping, hit highlighting and hit-to-hit navigation, scripting tools, proximity searches, associated documents, intelligent agent, spider tool for incorporating external websites, metadata injection, installable synonyms, taxonomy tools.

on-the-fly categorization and results grouping.

Scripting Tool

 

G10 Software AG

Outlook

Outlook Express

Yes Yes Yes Internet Explorer: all versions, Mozilla: all versions, including Firebird and Firefox Yes No Yes Yes English and German   No  
  X1 Enterprise Client

X1 Enterprise Platform

Microsoft Outlook XP, 2003, 2007
Microsoft Outlook Express 6.x
Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5, 2.x
Lotus Notes & Domino 6.5.x, 7.0.x

Yes Yes Yes Internet Explorer: all versions, Mozilla: all versions, including Firebird and Firefox Yes Yes Yes Yes English Yes Yes Exchange Emails

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