Apache Solr has become grown-up

The open source search server Solr from Apache Foundation has become a mature technology ready for prime-time. The recent editions has added features which previously were only found in commercial offerings, such as Automatic replication for large installations with distributed search Java-API (SolrJ) Conversion of Office-documents Full faceted search Advanced tokenization, highlighting and stemming Apache

Stallman in Oslo – Free as in “Fanatic”?

The legendary founder of Free Software Foundation (FSF), and initiator of GNU (Gnu is Not Unix), GPL and more, visited Oslo today. I attended his speech about Copyright at the University of Oslo, where a few hundred people were gathered to hear (and see) this strange looking and strange speaking man. This is indeed one

Microsoft reveals FAST Search roadmap

Yesterday, Microsoft/FAST announced at the FAST Forward conference in Las Vegas the immediate roadmap of the FAST ESP (Enterprise Search Platform) product line. Also see what CMS Watch writes about the topic. Office 14 The main news is that ESP will be included in Office 14, to serve as the advanced/extended search server of Sharepoint.

Cominvent AS lanserer gavekort-portal

Cominvent AS driver gavekort-portalen www.gavekort.no, som først ble lansert i 2006, og relansert før jul 2008. Gavekort.no er norges største samling gavekort. Fra en enkelt side kan du søke, navigere og finne det gavekortet som passer best for den lykkelige mottaker. Brukerne elsker den, og butikkene elsker den også, da den gir dem bedre eksponering