LexisNexis and Interwoven

An interesting article on the slowly leaking news that in the US LexisNexis and Interwoven have stuck a deal to integrate legal and news information within Interwoven's products - see here the announcement on the Interwoven site. Seemingly the start point seems to be Search within the Vivisimo application: "The integration of Lexis Search Advantage with Interwoven Universal Search will combine the market leading enterprise search solution for professional service firms with content and services from LexisNexis® to provide law firm attorneys a single destination to efficiently find and leverage internal work product and trusted content from LexisNexis."

Assuming that this is heading the UK's way there would be plenty of demand within larger organisations, the present situation of dealing with intermediary providers isn't producing satisfactory results, especially on the massive databases of the larger information providers.

I wonder where what starts as a "Search" solution (to use the jargon of the technology providers) will lead ...