Re: Anyone familiar with Excalibur?

Back in 2000, Convera Corporation was formed as a result of a merger between Excalibur Technologies and Intel Interactive Media Services. Today, the Excalibur website ( http://www.excalib.com ) simply mirrors the Convera site ( http://www.convera.com ). RetrievalWare is their most important product, not the company name, as superboer7@planet.nl wrote in his message. "Convera's RetrievalWare solutions maximize return on investment in vast stores of unstructured information by providing highly scalable, fast, accurate and secure search across more than 200 forms of text, video, image and audio information, in more than 45 languages," according to the web site. Excalibur Technologies specialised in "in high-performance, search-powered, multimedia content management solutions for intelligently capturing, indexing, managing, accessing and utilizing valuable digital content - including text, images and video," and had partnered with Informix to produce the Excalibur Text Search and Excalibur Image DataBlades. A datablade is an additional component which can be added to an Informix Dynamic Server database to enhance functionality. The .30 files Grubber mentions are most certainly not related to any of the datablades, but may be to one of Excalibur's old products, of which they had several. My suspicion is that Excalibur search was used to create the canned reports. Unfortunately, Excalibur was very stingy with the information it would share about its systems, so you are unlikely to find any information on how to parse the files. However, there is a possibility you might get some help from Convera. They seem to have done a good job keeping on top of their "legacy" apps. Sorry I have no good news, but at least I can be authoritative in what I've got. Sincerely, Christopher Coleman President Kansas City Informix Users Group www.iiug.org/kciug Database Analyst Pharmacy Division Mediware Information Systems, Inc.