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Solr 1.4 with nice improvements

Jun 22, 2009janhoy1 CommentOpen Source, Search technology, Solr, Technologyperformance, replication, scaling, Solr, solr 1.4, tika

The Apache Solr 1.3 search server is very capable and stable, so there is nothing that should keep you from deploying it just because a new version is around the corner (within a few months that is). Upgrades should be smooth as well.

So what are some of the improvements in 1.4?

A week of Lucene & Solr

Jun 9, 2009janhoyOpen Source, Search technology, Solrapache, lucene, Open Source, search, Solr, support, training

I was in SF, California last week to dig deeper into Solr and to meet with its core developers (now working for Lucid Imagination). It was a great week with many new connections and new insight.

First of all, as you may know, Lucid Imagination is at the moment the primary commercial marketers, promotors and evangelists for Solr. They bring to the scene what an open source offering often lacks – a professional and polished image, nice wrapping and not least – commercial support. That is great for the future adoption of Solr with customers that need just that kind of safety. Being Lucid’s Norwegian parner, Cominvent AS now offers all of this in Norway as well.

Cominvent AS provides professional support for Lucene/Solr

Mar 4, 2009janhoy4 CommentsOpen Source, Search technology, Solr, Technologyapache, enterprise search, lucene, Open Source, Solr

So you are thinking of adopting open source search Solr or Lucene, but are reluctant because of the lack of support fom the open source world? Or perhaps you are already using Apache Solr or Lucene in your organization, and would like to have an expert partner to support you with your current solution and

Apache Solr has become grown-up

Mar 4, 2009janhoyJava, Open Source, Programming, Search technology, Solr, Technology, Trendsapache, enterprise search, Open Source, Solr

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”?

Feb 23, 2009janhoy3 CommentsOpen Source, Technology, Trendscopyleft, copyright, free software, FSF, Linux, RIchard Stallman

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

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Stallman in Oslo – Free as in “Fanatic”?