Hmm..not sure I would call Autonomy a "superb product". IMHO It is anything but. In fact, it is what one calls bloat-ware.I have had some experience with Autonomy and it is hardly something you should consider using unless you are eager to shoot yourself in the foot. I fundamentally disagree with Patrick's characterization as a "superb product". My experiences are far from it. Overall, I would apply that experience to most of the COTS such as FAST (MS), Endeca et al.
I would much rather work with a tool that I can tweak and customize freely without being asked to pay through my nose for every tiny thing. Hope that helps, Shashi 2009/4/3 patrick o'leary <pj...@pjaol.com> > I think you need to ask the question what do you want? > > A person asked me one, which is better, a gold pen fountain pen or a > plastic > bic pen? > The answer - depends > If you want the most fluid writing instrument, which gives you a certain > level of accomplishment as you use it, and looks superb then the gold pen > is > the answer. > > If however, you want a pen to use in the office, that just takes notes, you > don't have to > worry about chewing the top off, and aren't overly concerned about loosing > it going from meeting to meeting then the plastic pen is what you want. > > Autonomy has a significant amount of predefined indexing, predictive > search, > and matching capabilities. > Lucene is open source and capable of providing basic to complex search > systems, but requires elbow grease to make it happen. > > Autonomy comes with commercial support > Lucene has folks who will provide the same, but if you are will to do the > work you can get some support for free from an established community. > > Autonomy looks like a superb product, but seems to have a significant price > tag > Lucene is free... > > Autonomy locks you into a proprietary product, with limited pool of > experienced employees to hire from... > Lucene probably has x100 times the amount of people you can hire to work on > your projects, and as it's open source, it requires little to no training > to > bring java skilled engineers up to speed on it. > > The real question is, what are you looking for, and what best suits the > commitment level of your group? > > > > On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Lukáš Vlček <lukas.vl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > So it means that autonomy search solution is doing better out of the box > > then any solution based on Lucene right now? And bringing Lucene based > > solution at the same level would require additional investments and > > non-trivial development (probably not small). In other words if client is > > using autonomy then it makes no sense to migrate to Lucene...Hmmm... > great > > pity. > > > > Thanks, > > Lukas > > > > 2009/4/3 John Wang <john.w...@gmail.com> > > > > > Verity VDK, which was bought by autonomy, has zone search. Something > > lucene > > > currently does not support. > > > > > > We have implemented it ontop of lucene and thinking about contributing. > > > > > > -John > > > > > > On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Lukáš Vlček <lukas.vl...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > anybody has experience with Automony search technology ( > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomy_Corporation)? Speaking about > > their > > > > text searching technology is there anything which can not be achieved > > > using > > > > Lucene? > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > Lukas > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > http://blog.lukas-vlcek.com/ > > >
