Had an interesting conversation recently with someone close to the EAS/Zantaz/Autonomy on-premises archiving product. In summary:
- Support for EAS/Zantaz has become very poor since Autonomy acquired the product.
- It appears Autonomy has little interest in the product.
- However, an Exchange 2010 version is now available. The development efforts for this are nontrivial, so contrary to the prior bullet, that indicates Autonomy does have some interest in the product.
- Autonomy doesn't provide product roadmaps, which makes it still harder to tell what's happening with EAS/Zantaz.
- EAS/Zantaz is not strong in localization--notably searches that use non-English/American characters.
- It took Autonomy two years to make its Idol search work with EAS, but now it's working well.
- Systems integrator Capex is hiring lots of people with EAS/Zantaz skills. Maybe they could purchase the product from Autonomy.
... David Ferris, with thanks to the contributor