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Posts Tagged ‘lucene’
01: Open Source Search – Ready For Prime Time?
Well… it really depends on who you are and where you are. In the US, vendors like Lucid Imagination are making a business out of the support of Lucene/Solr. There are even commercial search vendors developing products off a Lucene base. Open source search outside the US is not as prevalent. We see it to some degree in Europe, but not in Asia Pacific. When IT budgets are tight, doing some prototype development with open source to prove the merits of a business case certainly has value. Just make sure you are clear on the end goal of that prototype. Turning a prototype into a final commercial product only works if the technology was selected correctly in the first place. A lot of prototyping technology is designed specifically to generate a prototype, and do it quickly. Moving to a final product requires something different again.
But back to the original question…it really comes down to a question of your company’s appetite for risk. At a recent conference, the CIO of a large financial institution was talking about her attitude to open source in general. In her words – when something goes wrong you can’t hold the open source developer community accountable; sometimes you just need a commercial entity in there with you that you can put some pressure on, the “one throat to choke” so to speak.
Now you may be in a company that does embrace open source and is willing to tolerate the General Public License (GPL) aspects. If this is the case and you have enough expertise in house to deal with anything that goes wrong, then perhaps it is for you. If you do go down the Open Source Search route, be sure to come talk to us about the ISYS File Readers. The availability of document filters is clearly a key area of open source search that’s not ready for prime time.
02: Lucid Imagination Taps ISYS For Document Filters
Earlier in the year we introduced you to the new member of our family of embedded search and access solutions: ISYS File Readers. Today we are pleased to update you on one of our first ISYS File Readers partners: Lucid Imagination. We’re particularly excited about this partnership, as anyone who is following search knows the serious “street cred” Lucid Imagination has been garnering as of late.
In much the same way that our ISYS File Readers are disrupting the market for document filters, Lucid Imagination is shaking up the enterprise search industry and getting companies to look at information access in a whole new light. With some of Apache Lucene/Solr’s key contributors leading Lucid Imagination, the company is making waves, and ISYS is pleased to now provide them with a critical piece to their offering. We encourage you to learn more about Lucid Imagination, read up on our ISYS File Readers document filtering technology, and review what some of the industry’s leading analysts are saying about our partnership:
* CMSWatch: Lucene can read almost anything: Lucid and ISYS team up
* Beyond Search: Lucid Imagination Offers Connectors to Lucene Solr Systems
* CMSWire: Lucid Imagination, ISYS Partner to Integrate Lucene, Solr and Document Filtering