Microsoft announced the expansion of their Enterprise Search portfolio yesterday with Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express. Fashionably late to the search party, Search Server 2008 is based on SharePoint and is a downloadable offering that provides secure, powerful enterprise search capabilities – all for free! Anyone can download a release candidate now at http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch, with the final RTM version available in H2 FY08. Microsoft is certainly putting emphasis on how you arrive rather than when you arrive to the party, this fall has been full of enterprise software releases including Unified Communications, PerformancePoint Server, and now Enterprise Search.
