Information Week has a nice article about the IBM OmniFind Yahoo Edition. It gives paints a favorable picture of the alliance from the perspective of both firms.

IBM is hoping that users of its free software will like what they see and want to add to more sophisticated tools that deliver more substantial revenue. “We actually believe that search is really only the start of the value proposition for enterprises,” says Andrews.

Yahoo, meanwhile, hopes to increase awareness of its services among businesspeople. “We haven’t been in the enterprise business space per se,” says Eckart Walther, vice president of product management for Yahoo! Search, “but our products are used in the enterprise.” He points to Yahoo Messenger, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Small Business, and Yahoo HotJobs as examples.

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