Lucene and SOLR Get Commercial Support 47
ruphus13 writes "Two of the technical leads and core committers of the Lucene Project have launched Lucid Imagination, a venture backed company now offering commercial versions of Lucene and SOLR in the hopes of making it the de facto choice of search technologies used by companies within their products. 'The Lucene search library ranks amongst the top 5 Apache projects, installed at over 4,000 global companies. Although OStatic is primarily Drupal-based, our site's search is based on Lucene. According to Lucid Imagination officials, the Solr search server, which transforms the Lucene search library into a ready-to-use search platform for building applications, is the fastest growing Lucene sub-project...Lucid's business model is roughly comparable to Red Hat's very successful model, in that it centers on support and services for free, open source software.'"
oookay. (Score:5, Insightful)
Nice press release but.. what does it do? O_o Five million dollars and they couldn't even buy a one sentence description of their product. Standards are slipping.
Re:oookay. (Score:4, Insightful)
"...in the hopes of making it the defacto choice of search technologies used by companies within their products. 'The Lucene search library ranks amongst the top 5 Apache projects... According to Lucid Imagination officials, the Solr search server, which transforms the Lucene search library into a ready-to-use search platform for building applications...
I agree, it could have been more explicit in giving a brief description, but was it really that difficult to glean what it does from the summary?
Re:oookay. (Score:1, Insightful)
I read the summary twice and it just made my head spin.
There's a big presumption in the summary that we've heard of Lucene before. I don't even know what they do. Do they search... the web? ...your LAN? ...your desktop?
Re:About to move to the Java port of Lucene... (Score:4, Insightful)
That's because the Zend Lucene library is written in pure PHP, ergo... _really_ slow. Either use a C module or get SOLR to get it fast. In my simple tests the Python lucene libraries were about 100-500 times faster than the Zend PHP version, it's really one of the worst Lucene libraries around (in terms of speed).
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