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This is part two of an article providing an e-discovery industry insiders view of the possible purchase of Equivio by Microsoft. Please read Part One first.
The consensus view is that after the purchase Microsoft will essentially disband Equivio and absorb its technology, its software designs, and some of its experts. Then, as Craig Ball predicts, they will wander the halls of Redmond like the great cynic Diogenes. No one seems to think that Microsoft will continue Equivio’s business. For that reason it would make no sense for Microsoft to continue to license the Equivio search technologies to e-discovery companies. That in turn means a large part of the e-discovery industry that now depends on Equivio search components, and licenses with Equivio, will soon be out of luck. Zoom will go boom! More on that later.