It s uncommon for an Israeli entrepreneur to do this, he says. I just happen to be one with deep pockets. Inevitably Capella does have heavyweight competition. In the US there are two companies, Macro Media and Verity, involved in the same field but Wiernik insists his system offers something unique. Macro Media has a great multimedia tool but you can t do 100,000 page applications with it.
Verity has a great text retrieval tool but the pictures are zilch.
MMD is a smart system. There aren t many companies that combine information retrieval with multimedia. Another competitor, Israeli company Enigma, Wiernik also describes as limited because it focuses on pure text driven applications. He s already working to expand the line into a full line of client-server platform products. There are so many possible joint ventures and so many ways to generate different versions.