About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: Tandberg, Qt Development Frameworks, Fast Search & Transfer, Vyke, Opera Software, Norsk Data, Funcom, Tandberg Storage, Kantega, ErgoGroup, Vizrt, Smarterphone, Norman, Tandberg Data, Tandberg Television, Komplett, Linpro, EDB Business Partner, Tandberg Movi, Q-Free, Innerloop Studios, Tandberg C90, Scalable Linear Recording, Hatteland Group, ObexCode AS, Fara, Scandinavian Customized Prosthesis, InCreo Interactive Creations AS, Vebjorn Tandberg, Ibas, Dolphin Interconnect Solutions, Tandberg E20, Arrive, TeleComputing, Atea, Software Innovation, Active 24, Mycron, Data Respons, Tiki Data, Codian, BlogSoft, ARM Norway, Profdoc. Excerpt: Fast Search & Transfer ASA (FAST) is a Norwegian company based in Oslo. FAST focuses on data search technologies. It also has offices located in Germany, Italy, Sri Lanka, France, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States, Brazil, Mexico and other countries around the world. The company was founded in 1997. On April 24, 2008, Microsoft closed its acquisition of FAST. FAST is now known as FAST, A Microsoft Subsidiary. FAST offers an enterprise search product, FAST ESP. ESP is a service-oriented architecture development platform which is geared towards production searchable indexes. It provides a flexible framework for creating ETL applications for efficient indexing of searchable content. Fast also offers a number of search-derivative applications, focused on specific search use cases, including publishing, market intelligence and mobile search. The Search Derivative Applications (SDA) are built upon the Enterprise Search Platform (ESP). The company is developing PHAROS, a new European multimedia search engine. FAST is notable for a major ongoing investigation by the Norwegian police into accounting fraud around the inflation of revenues and profits which has led to police raids o...
