Apple Computer Inc’s Enterprise Systems Division will be launching its AppleSearch workgroup technology alongside the new servers: it is designed to give Macintosh users personalised, easy access to unstructured text, turning a collection of documents stored on a server into an on-line library – based on the contents of each document – which can be searched to find needed information quickly and easily; the client-server AppleSearch is designed to deliver ad hoc access to information as well as proactive updates to its users on an immediate, daily or weekly basis; documents to be searched are not altered by AppleSearch – they are stored in their native format and translated into searchable text by Apple’s XTND file conversion technology, which enables users to view text of documents without having the application that created them.
