Yep, i think you got it right. Autonomy used to produce this thing called DRE (dynamic reasoning engine), we used to use a ton of them as search engine well be

Yep, i think you got it right. Autonomy used to produce this thing called DRE (dynamic reasoning engine), we used to use a ton of them as search engine well before elastic search was a thing. And of course we used to spend a metric fuckton of money in licenses. Later Autonomy was sold to HPE and they renamed the core product to IDOL IIRC, as in "Intelligent Data Operating Layer". Afaik Autonomy/IDOL was great as a search engine, however the whole market was pretty much cannibalized by ElasticSearch.