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Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 23:07:41 +0200
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Subject: Re: arguments in favour of lucene over commercial competition
From: jm <jmuguruza@gmail.com>
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thanks guys, those links are cool. I welcome any other positive thing
anyone can add. Specially references of products/sites moving to
lucene/solr

javier

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Otis Gospodnetic
<otis_gospodnetic@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Lucene/Solr choice typically means:
>
> * lower cost of ownership (think about various crazy licensing models som=
e of the commercial search vendors have: per doc, per server, per query, pe=
r year....)
>
> * faster implementation (just think about the duration of the sales/negot=
iation phase for commercial search vendors)
>
> * flexibility -- it's open source, you can change whatever you want. =A0T=
ry that with closed-source commercial search vendor's package.
>
> * super fast and knowledgeable community =A0-- see http://www.jroller.com=
/otis/entry/lucene_solr_nutch_amazing_tech
>
> * commercial support and experts still available -- see http://www.semate=
xt.com/services/index.html
>
> * adoption - small companies, medium companies, HUGE companies, secret or=
ganizations, everyone's using some form of Lucene -- see http://wiki.apache=
.org/lucene-java/PoweredBy , http://wiki.apache.org/solr/PublicServers
>
> * maturity - Lucene is over 10 years old. =A0Solr is over 4 years old.
>
> * future - look at JIRA, look at mailing list traffic, look at pace of de=
velopment, look at CHANGES.txt
>
> * searchable documentation and mailing list archives =A0-- http://search-=
lucene.com/
>
>
> * ...
>
> Otis
> ----
> Sematext :: http://sematext.com/ :: Solr - Lucene - Nutch
> Lucene ecosystem search :: http://search-lucene.com/
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: jm <jmuguruza@gmail.com>
>> To: java-user@lucene.apache.org
>> Sent: Wed, June 23, 2010 4:01:05 AM
>> Subject: arguments in favour of lucene over commercial competition
>>
>> Hi,
>
> I am trying to compile some arguments in favour of lucene
>> as
> management is deciding weather to standardize on lucene or a
>> competing
> commercial product (we have a couple of produc, one using
>> lucene,
> another using commercial product, imagine what am i using). I
>> searched
> the lists but could not find any post, although I remember seeing
>> such
> posts in the past.
>
> Does somebody kept such posts linked or
>> something? Or does someone
> know of some page that would help me?
>
> I
>> would like to show:
> - traction of lucene, really improving a lot last couple
>> of years
> - rich ecosystem (solr...)
> - references of other companies
>> choosing lucene/solr over commercial
> (be it Fast or
>> whatever)
>
> thanks
>
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