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_gospodne...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Lucene/Solr choice typically means: > > * lower cost of ownership (think about various crazy licensing models some of > the commercial search vendors have: per doc, per server, per query, per > year....) > > * faster implementation (just think about the duration of the > sales/negotiation phase for commercial search vendors) > > * flexibility -- it's open source, you can change whatever you want. Try > that with closed-source commercial search vendor's package. > > * super fast and knowledgeable community -- see > http://www.jroller.com/otis/entry/lucene_solr_nutch_amazing_tech > > * commercial support and experts still available -- see > http://www.sematext.com/services/index.html > > * adoption - small companies, medium companies, HUGE companies, secret > organizations, 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. Solr is over 4 years old. > > * future - look at JIRA, look at mailing list traffic, look at pace of > development, look at CHANGES.txt > > * searchable documentation and mailing list archives -- > http://search-lucene.com/ > > > * ... > > Otis > ---- > Sematext :: http://sematext.com/ :: Solr - Lucene - Nutch > Lucene ecosystem search :: http://search-lucene.com/ > > > > ----- Original Message ---- >> From: jm <jmugur...@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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To >> unsubscribe, e-mail: >> href="mailto:java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org";>java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For >> additional commands, e-mail: >> ymailto="mailto:java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org"; >> href="mailto:java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org";>java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
